The Messanger

Release The Old

I get to a bus station a few hours later and I go to the counter to buy a ticket to Alabama. It's a place where I can just escape from everything and start new. As I finish buying the ticket, I go and sit at a bench and wait for my bus to come, and that's when this older man sits a couple feet away from me. He pulls out a newspaper and begins to read while he drinks his coffee. I pay him no mind as my mind is just replaying everything that happened at the house. I was then brought back into reality as the old man said, " Are you ok young man? You seem to be nervous and what not". I look at him as I gain my focus back and I reply, " Yes sir I'm ok, just a bit nervous about this move is all".

The old man the takes a sip of his coffee and replies, " Ah I understand, moving somewhere new is always a scary yet exciting experience. Where you headed to if you don't mind me asking ?". I say, " Well I'm headed down south, I want to just escape from my area and start fresh".  He then finishes his coffee and folds up his newspaper as he's getting ready to head out and says, " Young man, I hardly even know you and you don't know me, but I can tell as I look into your eyes that you've been through complete chaos in your life so far. Your eyes show signs of fatigue, your hands would shake from time to time , you have scars all over your hands and arms. Young man, I believe this move will indeed be the best thing for you. Just remember that's there's nothing wrong with releasing what no longer serves you. I pray all goes well for you when you make it down".

I shake his hand as he's getting ready to head in his bus. He gets on the bus and leaves the station, I then look at the spot he sat in and it seems he left a piece of paper behind. I pick up the paper with the intent to throw it away, then I look at the paper and it's a page from the Bible. There's a section highlighted and it says, " Put on therefore, as God elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; forbearing one another and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you so also fo ye: and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness. And let Christ rule in your hearts, to the which also ye were called into one body; and be ye thankful".

As I finish reading, I just felt a wave of warm energy enter my body and I can start to feel my anxiety and depression go away. Before I can reflect on how I started to feel, a bus horn honks and it's my bus. I take a good look at my environment for the last time. Tears begin to stream down my face as I just reminisce on everything I've been through. I grab my stuff as I head in the bus, I get on and head to the back as I place my bags next to me I lay back and I take a deep breath as I accept that my new life is here on the horizon.