How To Cope With Sadness That Is Necessarily Inevitable

I wrote this at a time of great change in my life. There was a lot of leaving going on. Reading it today made me want to share it.

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When someone has meant something to us, their leaving will make us sad.

When we have meant something to someone, our leaving them will make them sad.

When our life is meaningful, moving on will cause sadness.

But our life is meaningful exactly because we keep moving on, and so that sadness is inevitable if we really are to continue to mean something to someone.