A Cycle

After sweetness, comes bitterness.

After bitterness, is sweetness. Such is just one cycle.

Joy and sorrow.
Love and loss.
Pain and growth

These are just a few cycles and such cycles exist to teach us lessons.

These lessons are learned over days.
These days turn to weeks.
Those weeks turn to months.
And months turn to years turn to a lifetime.

All the while this cycle is repetitive. Teaching us, helping us to learn so many different experiences.

Learn from these cycles, do not let the bad overcome the good.

For the good that both precedes and supersedes the bad is worth every moment of bad. For those moments of bad are moments of pain. Pain turns into growth. That growth turns into many things, all good in the long run, no matter how painful the journey.

But fear not, for you will not journey alone. You will find those who are great and powerful and loving and they will show you so much. It is true that these people may leave, which turns to a loss, but they will not always leave.

There will be those that stay. Befriend them, love them. For while your path with them may split for a time, that which tethers you together remains and that love will not be lost.

So, while sweetness may lead to bitterness, do not be dissuaded. For that change is not immediate, nor is it inevitable. It is a slow and gradual change.

Enjoy and nurture the sweetness so that it may grow into love instead.

Break the cycle and make it something beautiful.