“So many people enter and leave your life. Hundreds and thousands of people. You have to leave the door open to let them in but it also means you have to let them go.” – Jonathan Safran

This is the tragedy of love and loving. True love is letting go and being grateful for when they were.

One of the utter painful experiences in life

is the loss of love.

It is saying goodbye to friends, family, or lovers

not knowing if you’ll ever see them again.

Love is that squeeze in your breath and chest, when you remember how great it was in those moments with them.

Those times and places were shared with them and belongs to you all, not just one person.

Love is saying goodbye and suffering because you can’t chase them, love is letting them go and being grateful for that moment in both your lives when chance made you share it. Love made you want to relive it.

Love is goodbye.