Accepting It Well

Accept it and be at peace.

Whoever is meant to be in your life will remain there, come what may. No matter how many obstacles arise, you will find that something has occurred—something that should never have happened—yet it happened, simply to keep them there.

And whoever is not meant to stay, you cannot hold them, no matter what you do. Everything might seem perfect, yet from nowhere a storm will sweep in and scatter it all to ruin.

In the same way, one for whom you were never meant will lose you even after finding you.

Holding on, the desire to hold, love, being beside or apart, drawing near or withdrawing—all of these lie largely beyond our choosing, bound by something written before we were born. We may struggle a thousand ways against it, yet we cannot break free.