Alyice on November 24th, 2008

Thanks For The Season

Last Monday I mentioned having a hard time letting go of the people I love, but what I didn’t mention was how I have a hard time letting go of anyone in my life—acquaintances, business relations, co-workers, and people I’ve built bonds with during mutual activities or group sessions.

How do you say good-bye to people who’ve shared so much of your life—whether it was for long hours during short periods of time or short minutes during long periods of time or a combination of both? How do you just “let go” and move on with your life? That’s something I’ve never been good with.

One day, during a Bible study, I was taught the importance of seasonal friendships—the type of friendships that aren’t meant to last forever; the type of friendships that are meant to last a period or season of your life and no more and it helped put things into perspective. I was taught that just because someone wasn’t meant to be in your life forever doesn’t mean that the relationship was less important or less significant—in fact, it could have been quite significant and important, even life altering. It just wasn’t meant to be more than that—to continue.

I’ve had several of these types of people enter and leave my life over the years; people who’ve stayed around for only a short period of time (a day, a month, or a year) but have changed my life forever—some for the better, some not so much. And I’ve had people who’ve stayed much longer—often entering, leaving, and re-entering my life at different periods in my life.

I haven’t always been able to appreciate or say “thank you” to these seasonal friendships; partly because I didn’t understand, partly because they ended too soon or without warning, and partly because I couldn’t handle saying good-bye. So I’d like to do that now.

Thank you for being there for me and allowing me to be there for you. Thank you for sharing in life’s joys, thank you for sharing the normalcy of life with me, thank you for helping me through some very difficult times in my life, and thanks for allowing me to help you through yours.

Though the friendships have ended, the memories and the lessons learned remain.

Give thanks…

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