It took me one third of a century to understand something I once refused to accept. No matter how important you are to someone, your place in their life can change in a single moment. The person who once could not imagine a day without you may eventually learn to live as if you were never there. And strangely enough, we cannot always blame them for it.
People change. Feelings change. Circumstances change. Even the things we once believed would last forever eventually become memories. Perhaps the deepest wisdom is not learning how to make people stay, but learning how to love without demanding permanence.
Everything changes. And the sooner we understand that, the less we suffer when life changes us too.
