Breathe in

It’s been three weeks since I drew this portrait. I drew it well before I made the last two I shared but I held on to it because I felt it was lacking something. But after pondering and scrutinizing time and time again I had to just take a deep breath and let go. This piece and its beauty symbolizes the stance which I now take in life. Welcome the inevitable in your own way, master what you can and don’t force anything.
Life is short and beautiful, it is just sad to see how people get eaten up by an event or a betrayal.

Just recently, the person I was in a relationship with for about three years. We were planning on getting married this year. Out of the blue she called me up last October and told me my family wouldn’t accept her (a family she hasn’t met). I spoke with my family and even made arrangements for meetings. She kept us waiting and didn’t show up three times. I still made efforts to ascertain what was wrong but she said nothing. I just learnt that she got married two weeks ago.

We’d been planning our wedding for three years. She called it off and married someone else. If I were younger I would be on a rampage and probably abandon everything but having seen life the way I have, I’ve come to learn to respect and love myself. If I was bad to her or I did something wrong it would’ve been a different case.
So my fellas, what I’ve learnt to do is to appreciate what I have and let go of what isn’t.
Life is short and beautiful, don’t focus on the negative.

The process….

Thanks for making me a part of you day.