People leave...

People leave. No matter how much you want to hang onto them, no matter how hard you try to make things work - sometimes, it’s just easier to let go. For both your sake and theirs.

It’s easy to sit down, long after a crisis moment has passed, and to wonder where things went wrong. Perhaps you asked for too much, or they expected too much of you. Perhaps what you thought you had was merely something that was transitory. Maybe you were on a different level than they were.

What’s inevitable is that, some people are destined to leave you. That’s the beauty of what you share with them, really they come into your life, like storms that are all noise and no substance. They create brief interludes of intense emotion, they burrow deep into the substratum of your existence, force you to reconsider yourself in a new light and teach you things you never knew you didn’t know. They leave you changed forever.

And then suddenly, one day, they’re gone.

You’ll miss them, maybe. For a while. Until it hits you that they were never really meant to last. That lingering too long would have soured everything.

At least this way, they leave your memories intact....