The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.--Shirley MacLaine
Life is a process of letting go, letting go of conditions we can't control, letting go of people--watching them move out of our lives, letting go of times, places, experiences.
Leaving behind anyone or anyplace we have loved may sadden us, but is also provides us opportunities for growth we hadn't imagined.
These experiences push us beyond our former selves to deeper understandings of ourselves and of others.
So often those experiences that sadden us, that trigger pain, are the best lessons life is able to offer.
Experiencing the pain, surviving the pain that wrenches us emotionally, stretches us to new heights.
Life is enriched by the pain.
Our experiences with all other persons thereafter are deeper.
Instead of dreading the ending of a time, the departure of a loved one, we must try to appreciate what we have gained already and know that life is fuller for it.
Today will bring both goodbyes and hellos.
I can meet both with gladness.
3 comments:
it's quite difficult, isn't it
letting go
feeling the pain
but reassuring to read these words
thank you
Too many of them and it hurts you physically though.
And I don't know about meeting them with gladness...
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