it is the aftermath

*disclaimer: i took a lot of punctuation liberties with this post sorry to all you grammar smarties, this post will bother you*

so you're at a pivotal moment, you think, you analyze, you deliberate, you come to a conclusion, you do what you think is right, what is supposed to be done. maybe you have come to this moment sooner than you would have hoped, maybe you would rather it never be your choice in the first place but life happens not on our own time schedule so you jump, you dive, you sink, you swim. now the aftermath of your decision is almost too painful to deal with. even though you know what you did was right, that something needed to be done, to change. that's what happens when you hit a fork in the road you have to go one way or the other. but now what?