The Weekly Writing Challenge is coming at us with a different perspective this week, with the choice of four possible photo prompts as a jumping off origin.

Contemplation
For the fourth week in a row I wanted to avoid everything in my life. it had been nothing worth writing home about anyway, since the moment Jessie looked at me and said she needed something new. To say I was flabbergasted seems such an understatement. I had quit my job, moved twelve hundred miles and put all my plans on hold for her.
Don’t get me wrong, she was worth it. Since the day i stumbled, literally over her under the massive oak tree on the university campus while chasing a Frisbee I was smitten. Jessica Freeman was a classic beauty, the kind that did not have to buy a cart full of cosmetics to cover the imperfections. In fact, time after time I reassured her that her natural beauty was an asset others coveted.
My theory was proven more than once when her friends came to her to aks her secrets. When she told them she had none they scoffed, but came to realize she didn’t. Hooking this beauty was the achievement of my life in my early twenties. She came with a fierce love and devotion that overwhelmed my life and made me addicted to her brand of commitment. It was this confidence in her serious connection that proplled me through the doubt of quitting my job and ripping up my roots.
I never regretted any of the changes, that is not until the moment he took both my hands in hers and through a torrent of tears announced she was leaving to seek an answer to a question in her heart. I had no choice but to hope she would realize her mistake and return, but now I see that will not happen.
My choice for a place of solitude was somewhere we never came, this high spot where I can look out into the sea. From here I can imagine what might have been, even as I come to grips with the reality of now. If only Jessie could see her mistake as clearly as it seems to me.
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Great post. I want to know more about this guy.
Softly moving. A great read.