[ludster]

 

They told me this was only a phase.

Others were assured that their way was superior to mine.

It was as if I was set up for failure.

 

Well,
look at me now,
mom, dad...

 

 

The tower had been far too quiet. Amidst its hallowed halls, the silent echoes of missing footprints signify an utter lack of life for the past days that has marched on. Preparations had been far too taxing to the new family I had found. And yet, here I am, unable to stay still. Perhaps it's why I've been drawn back to you, dear diary. Perhaps it's why I still keep you around.

 

I came to tell you that I did it.

 

A dream, nothing more than a dream. Like wisps in the wind, this was nothing but musings in my head. Wishes, wants, hopes. A new life that I yearned for, one I have oh so wished to grasp... it has finally turned around. To shed the life I was born in, to go after and become what I truly desired to be. It is as I had hoped all those years ago when I left: my life will be in my own hands and my own hands alone.

 

No amount of devotion can topple my own. The shadow above my head and the wings before my back is the physical proof of my piety. Turn my back upon a life not worth living as I bask upon a new one, birthed by my own whims and decided on by me and me alone. I fly from the cage imposed upon me with wings I've sprouted from my own.

   

My mark upon this world is made. A dream accomplished, success that they will never take from me.

 

  

Maybe I just wanted to rub the fact in their faces.

  

Because I truly do want to remind them...

 

   

...that I'm finally free.