Sometimes things aren't always as they seem. People, places, friends...

Sometimes you're blinded by what you want to see. And the truth is completely hidden from view.

Sometimes it takes someone else to pull off the blinders and open your eyes. To show you how it really is. Who they really are. Who you really are. And then sometimes the blinders never come off. You never see the truth and you go on living each day thinking you're happy. When you're not. When in reality you're living in misery and each of those days are bringing you closer to the edge.

I used to wear those blinders. My eyes used to be closed tightly, forcing the truth away. But nowÉ now I know. It took someone close to me to show me how much I had really changed. How much they had changed me. All along, they had been treating me like I was worthless, and I had been too blind to see it. But I was the one that had blurred my vision. I wanted everything to be okay, but it wasn't. I had always prided myself in my strength, and here I was letting people who I thought were my friends push me around.

Like in that "Amazing Grace" song. "I once was lost, but now I'm found, was blind but now I see."

Now I see.

Now I'm better off.

But that doesn't mean it hurts any less.

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