Every phase of your life is meant for a reason.
In some phases, you will make friends for life. In the very next, you may not even want to stand next to them. There will be things you once hated that, today, you cannot live without. You may not have liked a book, a movie, an author, or a song, but today they may all be on your favourite list.
And there will be moments you once wanted more of, moments you thought you could live inside forever, but today even the thought of them suffocates you.
That is what change does.
Relationships get made, get stale, get broken, get strengthened — all because you are making progress. And when you move, things will not always stay with you. Nothing and no one carries the exact same passion, fire, or even lack of fire as you do.
So you might get lonelier. Or you might fill a room with people just because, in that phase, you need to meet someone, talk to someone, be reminded that life is still moving around you.
All of it depends on the phase you are going through.
Nothing is meant to stay, except the traces it leaves.
Traces of you. Your choices. Your words. Your kindness. Your anger. Your love. Your care. Your irritations. Your ignorance. Your arrogance.
They all came through you. They all shaped you into who you are today.
And right here, right now, your worldview can change. Your opinion can change. What once felt true may stop feeling true. What once felt wrong may start making sense.
Because you can change.
And it is fine.
You are not responsible for worshipping every old version of yourself. You are not responsible for defending every thought your mind once had.
But you are responsible for how you choose to be in this moment — both to yourself and to others.
