As our life progresses, we come into contact with others and their stories. As we build relationships, we walk into their stories and they walk in ours. Even if there is a break in the relationship or we go our separate ways, part of each other's lives remain. We become connected. That's why relationships are so important, and all relationships are connected to a story. Some stories bring joy and others pain, but we can grow through either.
I realize not everyone is into poetry. That's okay, I'm not into math! A little bit can go a long way. Below is a little bit of poetry by the 10th Poet Laureate of the United States:
Stanley Kunitz put it in ‘The Layers’, ‘I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was.’
