Homie-Lover-Friend

The reality is that we all go through our lives meeting, falling in love with, caring about, and then having to part from many, many different people- childhood friends, high school sweethearts, teachers, work colleagues, etc. In our darker moments, we may wonder about the value of those relationships, since they were transitory and ended up not lasting. Were they ‘real’? If so, why didn’t they last? We can love someone and let them go, and that our physical separation doesn’t diminish the realness or the beauty of that relationship. Those people will always be a part of us, just as we will always be a part of that other person. Indeed, the exquisitely melancholy truth is that the act of letting someone go is often the most loving thing one person can do for another.