“If there is one life lesson I have painfully and slowly learned
It’s there is no turning back on the bridges you have burned.”
-Obbverse, “Looking back through the past, darkly.”
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Chel Owens 
Unfortunately unless you are an advanced driver there is rarely any turning round on bridges burned or not? 🛑
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🤔 You have to consider the car you’re driving, too.
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Yes fair point 💜
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Perhaps it’s time to construct new bridges and leave the past behind where it belongs.
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Very deep. Yes.
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Perhaps they are bridges that have served their purpose.
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So they need burning?
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Annette may have a point.
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You’re right. She’s right. Sometimes we need to let the past go.
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Sometimes you can take the ferry. With your hat in your hand.
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And a drink in the other?
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No, drinking may have led to burning your bridge.
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Ahhhh
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Gratitude is the antidote to regret.
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You are also right.
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Love it
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❤️ I thought it clever.
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My sons favourite pasttime
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🔥 Sometimes, I have capitulated as well.
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I was having a bad day/night! Still, you can’t go anywhere if you blow up your own bridges, much less burn ’em.
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Gnu’s ferry sounded good.
Anyway; this was my favorite takeaway from your poem. ❤️
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Thank you Chel, I appreciate that it resonated, even though it is a tad on the bleak side.
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Too true, sadly.
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That’s what I thought.
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So true. Always best to avoid burning bridges. Ah, the regrets.
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You said it.
By the way, our grocery store had their Chex mixes on sale yesterday and I thought of you!
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Talk about burning bridges. There was a sale? On Chex Mix? And you DIDN’T buy any? Giiiiirlllll…. I’m not sure you and I can recover from this.
😉
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🤣 I never said I didn’t…
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Oh, well that’s different. 😛
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A good one, Chelsea. A stark warning but so true.
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❤️ Thanks.
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