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Extreme Flight Risk

upon arriving in the airport she got her bags & met the members of her family who had come to meet her--- she had the small talk as they made their way to the car that they all had crammed themselves into, in order to make it on time to meet her. the excitement in the eyes of her parents reveal all the comfort of reunion which understandably brings them happiness & in their overlapping questions, their interest in the time away that their daughter has spent seems like an interrogation of sorts. her own attitude is negative, for she had moved to the city in order to take advantage of all it had to offer, and after years of struggling, she was unable to make ends meet--- all the time spent earning her degrees & all the networking she’d done seemed to wash away down the river, as she packed & made her way back to her parents’ house. she gets behind the wheel of her mother’s car & drives through the town in which she grew up, but now, a decade later, all that is left are the buildings & though she can still remember the times spent with her friends & that brings her joy, she has no friends now in the little town & she feels as if she has fallen backward to the starting point again. if she sees this new predicament as a prison she will grow more angry with each passing hour & her inability to develop new relationships in her life based on this well of anger inside (aimed at herself through an overwhelming sense of failure), will only make it more difficult to get through the days until she is able to establish a new strategy or goal which may give her purpose again & hopefully move her to a happier place in her life regardless of where she physically resides--- for now, she is an extreme flight risk--- for now, at the drop of a hat, she might take whatever savings she has left, buy a plane ticket to the furthest place possible & jump aboard, without looking back.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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