She knows what sour feels like. It was when she failed exams or didn’t make it to the girls volleyball’s national team. It was when she drifted apart with her best friend she had known since she was 7. It was when her grandparents died within the same month. It was when she experienced heartbreak for the first time. It was one-sided love, untold love, hidden admiration, unsaid goodbyes, and unfinished business. It was unspoken regret and apologize. It was never-ending grief and sorrow.
She knows it all too well—she was familiar with life’s sourness.
Now she’s discovering things she never thought she would; that life can be a sweet treat sometimes. That life is like eating a sour candy but with a surprise chocolate-filled center. That all she needs to do is to hang in there, to experience all the sourness of life, to feel it all until her taste buds grow numb.
Now she’s tasting sweetness. Love and a peace of mind and joy and comfort and tranquility and happiness. The past, and all it sourness, is staying behind. The future looks sweet and for once, she doesn’t dread the future—for she knows it too well that it will be sweet.
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