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WRITING INSPIRED BY: SONGS

Don’t Stay Here — Song by Frames

Life Is a Series of Balancing and Steps as We Move Forward

Roger Skibowski

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Photo by Raphael Renter on Unsplash

There have been many times in my life that required me to listen to my gut feeling when I heard “Don’t Stay Here.”

Three different times that come to mind were in one a relationship, two a job, and three living in a town.

Each began in a happy state of mind, but after some period the happiness durned in to unhappiness.

Relationship

The relationship was new and started out wonderful. At about the thirty-month mark, the other person was interested in other people. This rude awaking ended the relationship quickly. The hard part was by then we had a two-year-old. The remedy required legal actions in order to come to terms. I knew I could not continue in the relations under the new discovery. She did not want to stay in the relationship either, so we moved on and lived our individual lives.

Job

I took a job, and we moved to another state, sold our home, purchased a new home and got settled in. Company paid for the moving and associated moving expenses. Settle in to the new area and job. All was…

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