People Come and Go

I agree. Every person that we meet and have touched our lives do leave a mark. Either they were happy memories or bad memories, each one has taught us somehow and may have made a difference in our lives.

I started a new journal after reading a recent Debbie Macomber publication (the title escapes me right now). I am writing a page about people who have been in my life in the past or newcomers and how they affected my life. I will continue to keep this journal for the rest of my life. In writing about people I know and reflecting I can see how they have positively affected me and/or my life. I can see the reason they came into my life. I haven't written in it lately but I should, especially with the coming of a new year.

I am not good at specifying everyone I met. It might be feasible if you have a few friends and enemies, but I remember those who were not nice and caused metro go wrong and my friends. What you have to consider is that sometimes the wrong caused by the bad ones are sometimes irreversible. Maybe one should be thankful that one did not do more harm or killed themselves. Because perhaps that is what those bad ones intended.

Indeed there are a lot of people in our lives that just come and go, jodee. Others would remain friends until today, but others don't, because they transferred to a far place. When i think of the many people i met, it makes me smile because if i am to list them they are so many. And bumping into some of them unexpectedly after long years, makes you smile because of the difference they have in their looks already.

I agree to that. In fact I have just posted something similar to this on my Facebook. Here goes: "Life doesn't always introduce you to the people you want to meet. Sometimes life puts you in touch with the people you need to meet -- to help you, hurt you, leave you, love you and to gradually strengthen you into the person you were meant to become." So for the people who have hurt me, left me, or stayed with me. I am thankful to them. Even though sometimes it is difficult to comprehend why some people can hurt you, it is also best to think that God will not allow such to happen, there is something that brought good into us which is why we meet and lose people.

Hi Stout, I agree with you competely..everyone one who has crossed out path should have had some sort of effect on our lives, either posetively or negatively...either or there is a memory there....

That is true. Those that caused me great pain have been expelled from my daily life by choice, but they taught me some good lessons. I sometimes miss the comraderie we had, but I remember how they hurt me and I move on. Thanks for the great reminder.

While I would say that we do learn from the people in our lives, I would have to ask is why do the lessons have to be so painful in life. Why do these people who just want to come and go in our lives think they should control our lives and tell us what to do. People do not get that asking questions does not mean that they get to tell us what we should do. They could have an opinion, but it is an opinion. At the end of the day, the choices that we make are ours. Why is it that people will threaten us that unless we act and do as they want that they will be out of our lives? Why is that people think that they have the right to manipulate and control others?

That's the way it is.... People come and go... That's why we have to treasure our people who are dear to us.... You never know when when they will be in our life...

Very much indeed. We would normally ask reasons for unlikely things that we have encountered. Or cry out for people who left us. But all the things will make sense in its own time.