You are going to lose people in your life.
And I realize that no matter how much you spent with them,
or how much you appreciated them and told them so,
it will never seem like it was enough.40
“When you lose someone, it stays with you. Always reminding you of how easy it is to get hurt.There can be no triumph without loss. No victory without suffering. No freedom without sacrifice.The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.What you don't give up, you never lose.Sometimes it takes a huge loss to remind you of what you care about the most. Sometimes you find yourself becoming stronger as a result, wiser, better to deal the next big desaster that comes along. Sometimes but not always.Maybe the best way to cope with the loss of the people we love is to find them in as many places and things as we possibly can.We don't realize how much we need something until it's taken away from us.They say the first year after a major loss is the hardest. That’s an understatement; loss is its own brand of insanity and no relief from it. There are no shortcuts and the only way through grief is through it. You just have to get up every day and wait to go to bed every night, then wake up and do it all over again.Sometimes we have to realize what we're about to lose in order to know how precious it is to us.When you lose everything, that's when you're finally free.We're not defined by what we los. We're defined by what we survive.And as I go about discarding things, I realize what it is I can't let go of.Have you ever lost someone? It's like you're dying with them. They can move on. And you're stuck.Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.Nothing on earth can compensate the loss of someone who loved us.When you lose something in your life, stop thinking it's a loss for you... it is a gift you have been given so you can get on the right path to where you are meant to go, not to where you think you should have gone. 
