To Gain or To Lose

Everyone always thinks of all the things they have either lost or gained. It's hard not to. When we think of all the things we have lost over our years of life it puts us in a bad place, sometimes it makes us cry. When we think of all the things we have gained over our years of living its hard not to smile. When we lose a person from our life some people curl up into a ball and cry, other may pretend that it never happened and live in denial. Some people are optimists, they accept the persons death as think of all the good things that they have had with them.
Its different when a person leaves, going on to other things in their life. It's hard to mourn someone who hasn't really gone. You will still be able to keep in contact with them, even if its just asking how they are. But you will not have the same sort of relationship that you had with them again. To make things worse you know someone else will have to replace them. You don't want them too, you want to hold on to the person whom you miss. But after a while you find it hard to push them away, you start to like them. You let them in, and you get too know them. They become a person you like and you know take for granted. Then all too soon they are gone from your life, moving on to do other things, impossible to mourn. You know you had slowly gained a friend, but then all too soon lost them again.

Try not to take people for granted, you don't know when they may leave.

Kathleen Armstrong