Empty Apartment

You'd think it would be tough to be in an empty, bare apartment that I've enjoyed, but...

When I first came to Vancouver I was hoping to stay for a number of years, but knew I might have to pick up and go again in a year. Sure enough, that's what happened. So when I first came into this place I really looked around and said to myself,

"This is what the apartment looks like empty. It will look this way again when I leave."

It's made a big difference. I'm spending such a small percentage of time on sadness over leaving, and investing all my energy into getting a look at the empty inside of my new apartment in Englewood.