It’s okay to miss them

It’s okay to miss someone that shouldn’t be in your life. Whether you walked away or they did, it is a loss. When they visit you in your dreams, you can wake up with the realization that visit was temporary. When they cross your mind, you can allow them to take the scenic route. When you stare out the window playing out scenarios in which things could be different, you can linger there a moment. 

It is okay to miss them.

Missing them does not mean they need to come back in your life. It does not mean you are weak. It does not mean it will be this way for ever. It simply means, in that moment, you miss them.

Life can be hard enough when you miss someone and feel the heartache of loss, do not dare to beat yourself up for feeling that way also. Grant yourself the grace to allow that feeling to be present. 

Perhaps, it can be a teacher.

How can you walk today and honor their previous role in their life or even honor the space they left? What are the positive things you have learned to embody from them? What are the negative things you have learned to avoid? How can you make lemonade from the sour bitterness of their absence? How can you make poetry out of the tragedy?

It is okay to miss them.

- Dani 💚💙