The Past

Sometimes when you invest time and energy into a relationship (friendship, intimate, family etc) it is difficult to let go. It is difficult to walk away from it despite perpetual rough patches. You keep looking to the past to convince yourself that the situation can be better. You see that the relationship is fast going downhill and you are cognizant of the many problems: the comments, the lack of effort among other things, but you try to be the bigger person and put in the work. You try to be optimistic when you know its a long shot, you try to keep upbeat when all you hear are negative comments.

But sometimes, the effort is not worth it, better yet the person is not worth it and then you realize its time to walk away and leave the past in the past. But this is hard beause you know once you turn away you will never look back.

...At least you tried.