The Game of life is never ending.
After some choices, we end up going back a few spaces,
others, we move ahead.
Then there are the special spaces
love,
happiness,
belonging,
acceptance,
all of these spaces help us to move ahead in life more quickly,
they help us to accept ourselves as we are which help us to be happy.
Then there are the spaces that move us back
emptiness,
mental illness,
exhaustion,
anger,
These cause us to move back several spaces.
More spaces than helpful spaces.
These make us move back weeks,
months,
even years.
They set us back from recovery,
then they tease us by telling our brains we don't need recovery
we don't