A few months ago a friend told me about this poem and the meanings and ideas it represents and although I hadn't actually read it, I held onto these ideas tightly for some reason finding comfort in its message. I recently looked it up and since can not stop reading it. I have found it not only gives me peace in many relationships in my past and future but in a lot of other areas of my life too.
There's something so refreshing about meeting people and then accepting your fate and letting them go. It makes me want to be so mindful of everyone I meet for how ever short or long I know them for, not only the people who help me. It also releases a little anguish I have on my current friendships. I have such amazing friends ALL over the country and world, some I have known a very short time and wish so badly I could have had more time with, and some I have known for a long time. I fear I will not see them again or as much as I would like and its a really unsettling feeling for me. Growing or been forced apart for what ever reason. This poem gives me a little faith to let some people go and just be thankful that they came at all. Anyway I thought since I seem to be firing it around a few pals, in the hope they will find comfort in some way that relates to them too, I should just share it with everyone and anyone here....
People come into your life for
a Reason
a Season
or a Lifetime.
unknown
When you know which one it is,
you will know what to do for that person.
When someone is in your life for a REASON,
it is usually to meet a need you have expressed.
They have come to assist you through a difficulty,
to provide you with guidance and support,
to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually.
They may seem like a godsend and they are.
They are there for the reason you need them to be.
Then,
without any wrongdoing on your part
or at an inconvenient time,
this person will say or do something
to bring the relationship to an end.
Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away.
Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.
What we must realize is that our need has been met,
our desire fulfilled, their work is done.
The prayer you sent up has been answered
and now it is time to move on.
Some people come into your life for a SEASON,
because your turn has come to share, grow or learn.
They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh.
They may teach you something you have never done.
They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy.
Believe it, it is real.
But only for a season.
LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons,
things you must build upon in order
to have a solid emotional foundation.
Your job is to accept the lesson,
love the person
and put what you have learned to use
in all other relationships and areas of your life.
It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.
Thank you for being a part of my life,
whether you were a Reason, a Season or a Lifetime.
