Accepting the Expiration Date
As a result, I live by the rule of the expiration date: the understanding that there is a fixed time limit that cannot or should not be exceeded. At some point, it will become necessary to end things.
Regardless of good times, strong connections or, of course, love, it is understood between both parties that things will end. It's not a cold process. It's something that comes from understanding one another, the environment, the situation and the moment in time. It's painful, certainly, but it's something that is almost necessary to maintain sanity.
Acceptance
In accepting the lessons we’re meant to, in the time we’re meant to, we give ourselves permission to rise to the worth we always believed ourselves to be and that raging storm that strips away at our dignity and self-worth turns into a cleansing rain.
In our pain, we begin to learn and we slowly begin to wash off the moss and the mold of our insecurities that once ate away at us, giving way to new blessings and a purer, healthier love.
