08/15/2026
Courage to Turn the Page
How brave, showing up
in a story
that looks nothing like
the one you imagined.
How brave,
to wake each morning
and step into pages
you never thought you would read,
to carry a love
that time can only deepen.
There are days
when simply breathing
feels like courage,
when laughter feels like betrayal,
when moving forward
feels too much like leaving behind.
But you are not leaving them.
You are carrying them,
in the quiet,
in the memories,
in the ache,
and sometimes
in the unexpected moments
when life asks you to smile again.
How brave, showing up
for a story you never chose,
and still finding, somehow,
the strength
to turn the page.
~ 'Courage to Turn the Page' by Spirit of a Hippie
โ๏ธ Mary Anne Byrne
~ Art by Bee. Succeed