Inescapable.

We should not discount the experiences we have or the people who come into our lives. We should try to see experiences and people with wide open eyes. Everything and each person has it or his or her place; we should honor this by trying our hardest to find that place.

It’s nearing the end of another semester and everyone is tired and stressed. I imagine it not being as draining if we were robots that did nothing but learn. Robots lack emotion. They are metallic and hollow. They process what you tell them and when. They don’t think; they don’t have to; they just do do do.

Humans think. Worse, we feel. It’s hard to stop those spinning emotions, those fleeting emotions, and those emotions that won’t let you go. It’s harder yet to think through them, analyze them, understand them. It’s such a deadening process. Even if you can see the end, you are not there yet. Even if you were, the end would change. The end will change; another process will begin.

Understand, though, if nothing else, you will be fuller because of those processes. In those processes you experience things and you meet people you wouldn’t have otherwise. And, yes, people come and go. But when they come, cherish them. Learn from them and let them learn from you. And when they go, shed a tear if you have to, but never forget why they were so important to you: why he was so important; why she was.

Let the importance become part of you. Let it shape you. For this is happening anyway; you are always being created. And if you accept what is good and learn from what is not, you will become, you will inescapably become.