Everything has an end by date. Including your relationships.

Disney and our parents gave us these expectations, that people are supposed to attach to us for life. With that mindset we hold on, no matter how much it is hurting. Yet, the Stoics taught us that everything is on loan.

You can only travel with people as far as they are supposed to travel with you.

There are people you have walked alongside since birth. They are called your parents, and perhaps your neighbours and village folks.

You will lose some of these folks along the way, as they take different paths, leave this world, or disappear into the forest.

Some people will stay with you consistently for life. In healthy or unhealthy patterns. You choose. Others will come in and out of your life. The rest will disappear on their own trails. Not to be seen again Nothing people do is personal. So, it is wise not to drag people along. Not to beg people to stay. Hot to try too hard. Allow people to choose their paths. Frequent tension and judgementalism, and entitlement in your interactions might require you to acknowledge that your relationships might be approaching an end by date. That is OK too. If you relax into this experience, you will also notice people who sincerely appreciate and acknowledge you coming towards you. The universe abhors a vacuum

As you move further along your path, you meet people, some of whom will stay with you consistently for life.

Others will come in and out of your life. The rest will disappear on their own trails. Not to be seen again

Nothing is personal. Do not drag people along. Do not beg people to stay. Do not try too hard.

Allow people to choose their paths. Sometimes people choose through their attitudes during interactions, through their behaviour, as well as through their verbal communications.

When you start to notice a lot of discomfort and tension in your interactions with someone. Or in the relationship. It is time to acknowledge that your relationships might be approaching an end by date.

Each person or thing you lose touch with, is replaced by a person or thing you might or might not acknowledge. So be on the lookout for people who are willing to participate in a relationship or situation with you, with ease.

When there is discomfort in the way you interact, you have mostly likely walked as far as you can walk with people.

You have most likely taken them as far as you can take them.

You have been with them as long as you needed to be with them.

The idea is to read the room of the universe, and release people and things. Seek ye the path of least resistance. If you are striving to make people see you or do what they signed up for, it is time to release them to their next level.

You are not a failure for not staying in a relationship that is difficult.

You are not a failure for not continuing on certain paths with certain people.

You are not a failure for letting go of people and friends.

Everything is on loan. Life gives it to you.