Missed Chance

Dear Delyara, I stayed when I should have gone, and now the years have turned into a cage I helped build. I remember the exact moment I had the chance to leave, to take that job in another city and start over, but I stayed for someone who wouldn't have done the same for me. Now I look at my life and see a map of all the places I never went. Every time I see a plane in the sky, I feel a pang of what could have been. You can’t negotiate with the past, and you can't get back the time you wasted on a 'maybe.' I am living in the shadow of the life I was too afraid to choose.