I’ve always moved around and lost the people around me, because of this I learned people come and go. Even if you don’t want them to.
My experience with people coming into my life and leaving is constant. I think it’s just the way the world works. People grow apart or get really close, enough to become your new normal. You eventually learn about them, what they like, how to help them with certain problems, and one of the most important things you learn from knowing someone is learning how to let them.
Let them be themselves. Let them talk. Let them learn about you too.
People have their own way of doing things.
People are like seasons. Seasons change, and come back eventually.
Growing up, I always thought of friendships and relationships as something that is always permanent. I would always think that because people laughed with me growing up, or when my “best friend” would buy us friendship necklaces, that would mean that we would be best friends for life.
Goodbyes are something you don’t always think about because it never crosses our minds that someone you care about so deeply would ever purposely go away from your daily life. Sometimes there’s always that one occasional goodbye kind of like moving away from your very first friend, your first home and school, but I always saw those coming from the way I was raised.
Sometimes it would hurt.
I would wonder if the move was my fault, or I would feel sad about not seeing my first friends again. Now that I know there are goodbyes in life and that sometimes it’s for the best, I will look back on the times I had with a person, and I’ll replay moments and memories.
Ever since I have started to view the coming and going of relationships, there is a lot of beauty in remembering a person or past experiences. Each and every person who has come into my life has left their own little mark. An inside joke, their music taste or even a new perspective to view the world from.
Something that has been a lesson from living in this world, is there will always be a new person, and people will always come and go. More importantly, I realized it will always be okay. To me, it matters that I was always grateful for the people around me.
It is a challenge when I am still learning that it’s okay for people to leave. Life goes on and my world keeps spinning around me. As i grow up i know that it is more normal for people to come and go. As long as I know I did my best for someone and did all I could, it’s sometimes better to just let them.
People come and go, but the love, the laughter and the lessons they have taught me will always be with me, giving me closure that it was all for the better. I am more ready for people to come into my life, and more okay that they are ready to go.
