By JESSICA SCHIEBER
Sometimes all someone can do is walk away.
This isn’t anything against you as a person, it is just something that happens in life. People come and people go. It’s the way of life.
All life is a cycle. Nature follows a cycle, human life follows a cycle, all our beings are made from cycles.
There is a destination at the end of life, but the cycle of life will continue. You will be born; you will grow and eventually you will die.
After your death the cycle of being born, growing, and dying does not end. There will be another person born who will leave another life and die, and after them there will be another.
Natures cycle is a cycle of seasons. Fall will always come, winter will follow, then spring and summer.
Cycles in a person’s life will look vastly different from this, but we all still go through it.
There will be a time when you make friends and a time you will lose them.
There will be a time when you are happy and a time when you don’t know if it’s worth pushing forward.
Struggling through these cycles is what makes our lives. We push through this confusing mess of cycles to try and make sense of why we are in this world. We push past some struggles, and we let others consume us.
Why should we be concerned if someone walks away? Why do we let that fact consume us?
We are so much more than someone could assume about us, yet we don’t ever let that truth come to our minds.
We let so many people control our lives without realizing it.
So many outside opinions shape us and we just accept it. Social media tells us how to communicate, how to look, how to dress, essentially how to live.
People who know us will attempt to tell us what is best in our lives and not let us make our own decisions.
People around us judge when we take a misstep, watch as we fall and say they would have never done that.
The truth is they could have done it. Anyone could have. Our faults are a part of our life cycle, and we shouldn’t be ashamed when they come.
If someone doesn’t like the way you do something they tend to walk away instead of fixing this issue, let them walk.
If they can’t handle that you are your own person and have your own way of handling things then that is on them and not you.
They have their cycle and you have yours. Maybe they cross paths for a season, maybe they aren’t meant to stay with you forever, that’s okay.
I have spent so much time worrying over something that I have no control over and that can ruin a person.
Someone’s decision to walk away is not on you. They mad thier choice and life will move on without them in yours.
It hurts when someone walks away, I know, but them stepping away could be the best thing that has ever happened to them, or even to you. People leave and when they do you grow.
If you try to cling onto every person who has come into your life, you don’t get any sunlight for yourself. You can only grow when you allow yourself to get over the fact that someone has left you.
When you do grow maybe some of those people will try to come back into your life, maybe you let them back in even after all the hurt you’ve gone through in thier absence. That is your choice, you have control on how you want something to end.