If These Places Didn’t Exist by Sarah Pacheco

I’m a firm believer that everywhere you go, the things that you experience, and the hardships that life throws at you all shape you into the ever-changing person that you are. In my personal journey of life thus far, I’ve lost the meaning of what home is, I’ve found myself and then somehow lost myself all too quickly, I’ve found love, been hurt by it, lied to by it, and found new meaning from it, I’ve experienced things that have formed my beliefs and thinking, and above everything I’ve found peace within it all. If These Places Didn’t Exist is about places in my life that have shaped me into who I am today. It is a reconciliation with myself and a reminder that despite how hard life is, no matter what I have to face, there is good in the end. It’s to remind myself that I’m okay. And if I’m not okay right now, that I will be. I will heal. I will forgive. I will grow. And I will be thankful.