Day Thirteen: Folks in the rearview.
Some friendships aren’t meant to last forever. That doesn’t mean they weren’t good, or right, or necessary. It just means we’ve outgrown them.
Growth changes things. It shifts the energy. The inside work we do. The boundaries we learn to hold. The clarity we earn through struggle. The old wounds we finally stop bleeding from. It all disrupts the old patterns we used to tolerate.
There’s a cost to growth.
And one of the highest prices is watching certain relationships quietly fade or dramatically fall away.
That’s hard.
Especially, when they used to be safe places or people we loved deeply.
But here’s the thing: staying small just to make someone else comfortable isn’t love. That’s self-abandonment.
And if we’re doing the real work of becoming whole, we have to get honest about who still fits and who doesn’t.
I’ve had to let go of people I once would’ve taken a bullet for. Not out of bitterness. Not because I didn’t care. But because I was becoming someone I couldn’t be in their presence.
It’s messy. It's sad. And it’s sacred.
Because when you finally stop shrinking to make room for others, you start creating space for the kind of relationships your soul is actually hungry for the ones that see you, stretch you, and stay aligned as you evolve.
Letting go doesn’t make you cruel. It makes you clear.
And clarity is the birthplace of freedom.
Here’s to loving people fully. And, knowing when it’s time to release them.
Mantra \ Prayer:
Today, I can hold people with an open hand.
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Steve Knox | Houston, TX