How do you pick up the threads of an old life?

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on when in your heart you begin to understand there is no going back? ...there are some things that time cannot mend, some hurts that go too deep that have taken hold.

You cannot always be torn in two. You will have to be one and whole for many years... you have so much to enjoy and to be and to do. Your part in the story will go on.

Well... I'm back.

Frodo - Lord of the Rings