People Come and Go

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  • Back then I asked myself: what does it mean to be rooted, to be healthily attached? And to also be capable of graceful loss?I’d answer now that it requires confidence that what is meant for you will stay. A deepening of what you already know, a renewal of discovery. This requires choosing the right people again and again.
  • Now I realize we’re always losing each other regardless — the old versions of us never last. It’s a miracle that we find people we continuously choose over and over. The choice is active. Very alive.

title: “People Come and Go” author: “nicoles.substack.com” url: ”https://nicoles.substack.com/p/people-come-and-go” date: 2023-12-19 source: hypothesis tags: media/articles

People Come and Go

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  • Back then I asked myself: what does it mean to be rooted, to be healthily attached? And to also be capable of graceful loss?I’d answer now that it requires confidence that what is meant for you will stay. A deepening of what you already know, a renewal of discovery. This requires choosing the right people again and again.
  • Now I realize we’re always losing each other regardless — the old versions of us never last. It’s a miracle that we find people we continuously choose over and over. The choice is active. Very alive.