There’s a certain truth about growth and development, a truth many people find out the hard way: not everyone is meant to stay when you rise up and become the person you’re meant to be. There’s a certain pain and a certain feeling of failure when people disappear from our lives, and yet, there’s a certain truth to this phenomenon:
The universe clears its own path.
It eliminates what doesn’t fit, what’s weighing you down, and what’s not capable of going where you’re going into the future. There’s a certain pain associated with this elimination, a certain stinging and confusion and questioning of self and purpose and decisions, and yet, this doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not working; it means it’s working:
What’s leaving your life is doing so because it doesn’t fit into the person you’re becoming.
Some people are only meant for a season, a lesson, a chapter, and yet you hold onto them as if they’re meant for the rest of the book, and yet, they’re not.
In the moment, it may feel unkind. With time, it will show itself to be a form of protection.
If the universe takes a person out of your life, it is probably making room for something more peaceful, for more positive relationships, for opportunities that you may have never had if you were holding on to what was familiar. It is clearing the way so that your future does not have to carry the burden of what no longer serves you.
Believing in this process is not about avoiding the grief and pain that it may cause. It is about embracing the pain and still believing in the bigger picture. It is about believing that your life is happening with a purpose, even if you cannot see that purpose.
What is meant for you will stay. What is not meant for you will go. And what is to come will thank you for letting go.
The great loss may not have hurt you. It may have hurt you to set you free.
Simply Reesi 