Lesson #3: Some People Only Come for a Season

Some of the people who come into our lives have an expiration date. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's part of living, part of growing, part of understanding that not everyone is meant to stay forever.

For me, that usually feels like the end of the world. I get attached easily. I let people in, I get invested, I end up making room for them somewhere deep in my life. So when a relationship shifts, or ends, or just takes a different turn, it can hurt enormously.

But over time I've started to understand that not everything ending means we did something wrong. There wasn't always a mistake, a fight, or someone to blame. Sometimes we simply finished a cycle in each other's lives.

And there's something lovely in that, too: knowing someone might have shown up to walk with you through one specific season, teach you something, help you grow, hand you moments you'll remember for good — and then carry on down their own road.

Not everyone we love has to stay for their presence to have been worth it. They always leave us with something.

Across these posts I've been trying to get at the same idea: everything in life is a cycle. Nothing really exists without a beginning and an end — and people are part of that cycle too, part of the road.

Some friendships last one night. Some last a year, or a chapter, or a single moment. And some last a lifetime.