Looking For Calm After The Storm

Looking For Alaska Writing Contest.

As a child, everything appears effortless and exciting. We're oblivious to the struggles of marriage, the crumbling walls between friendships, and the skeletons in our closet that keep us from moving on. Nothing is permanent, as much as we may want it to be. Sometimes the want for something to happen can be mistaken as a need, causing us to go to extreme lengths to achieve it. But what happens when the one thing in your life you thought would always be there, suddenly leaves you for good. Is there such a thing as wanting something too much.

Allow me to tell you the story of when everything in my life changed; the year I moved to America.