We so badly want the people we love to get their spark back when it burns out, to become speedily found when they are lost.
To love someone long term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be. The people they’re too exhausted to be any longer. The people they grew out of, the people they never ended up growing into. We so badly want the people we love to get their spark back when it burns out, to become speedily found when they are lost. But it is not our job to hold anyone accountable to the people they used to be. It is our job to travel with them between each version and to honor what emerges along the way. Sometimes it will be an even more luminescent flame. Sometimes it will be a flicker that temporarily flood the room with a perfect a necessary darkness. - Heidi Prebe This is me Letting You Go.