[ WP ] Tell me a story , any story , but you may only say what DID N'T happen . Good luck .

The world did not end. 
 This little blue marble hovering in the void did not crumble and shatter into fragments beyond number. 
 This fact did not seem really true to me at the time. 
 
 You did not leave me whole. You did not walk away from a man still complete with all his original pieces. You did not turn back. 
 
 There were no tears. No screams in the night. No sitting in the darkness, hoping, begging, again and again to wake up from the nightmarish reality of my own making. At least, none that I will ever admit to. 
 
 There was no sudden moment of clarity. No internal switch was flipped and nothing substantial changed over time to break the pattern of self-loathing and self-destruction. 
 And yet, the pattern did not last forever. 
 
 I did not get over you. I did not forget what you did, and what it meant to me. But I do not live in the past any more. 
 
 I did not stay only what you saw in me. I did not accept that. You did not see that I was only a first rough draft of something much bigger when you skim read my pages and found me lacking. 
 
 Whatever parts of me that I thought you took with you, you did not really take. I did not understand at the time that I was whole before and after you. I, like you, did not see my potential. 
 
 The world did not end. 
 And, surprisingly, neither did I.
