Ending A Cycle

Do people realize they’re about to follow the same path as the ones before them when they do it? Or is it something they assume will be different because they aren’t their parents? When we are about to make a mistake our family made, do we catch it in time if we don’t know how it happened in the first place? How do we know we haven’t already taken the step in their path? I saw him walk into the path but it was too late, he had already convinced himself it would be different because he isn’t the man who raised him. I wish he would’ve listened but he didn’t want to hear it and said I was too young to understand but I had already noticed the patterns in the way he would speak, the way he started acting and how he stopped caring about how his actions would affect others. Maybe it is easier to follow the path even if you knew the outcome of it but it doesn’t mean you can’t choose to make a new one. A new path is more difficult but at least you won’t make others suffer the same way you suffered. I spent too long trying to figure out how to make a new path that I became stagnant on the path I am on and now I don’t know if I’ll be able to forge a new path with the energy I have. That’s the problem with waiting too long, you don’t realize you might have already made a path, a roadblock that you will have to work twice as hard to break. It was easy for others to hurt others if that’s all they’ve ever known but if you want to make a new path, it’s a guessing game or like a multiple choice where you take out the answers you already know because you’ve been through it. It’s not easy breaking a cycle, it’ll feel like a waste at first because it takes longer but it will be worth it and it will allow for those after you to forge the best path as long as you lead them and teach them all the lessons of what you have learned and been through to ensure they cross out the hurtful paths. If you have ever broken a cycle, I’m proud of you because I know it wasn’t easy and it was worth it but it caused so much tears. There will be a better day and life ahead of you, don’t let anyone knock you down because you have gotten back up in the past and you will do it again.