I saw a quote circulated on Facebook the other day; it read:

“The people we meet at the wrong time are actually just the wrong people. You never meet the right people at the wrong time because the right people are timeless.”

That quote has stuck with me for a few days, causing me to take a step back and consider how crazy love is, especially while in college.

Being at the odd, confusing age of 20, everyone complains about how things just aren’t in the cards for them: “that guy I met is studying abroad next semester,” “she’s graduating early,” “we both got jobs in different cities,” “I couldn’t see myself marrying him someday,” “she’s not my type,” “I wish we would have met two years ago instead,” the list goes on…

After dissecting that quote, I argue that there is absolutely no such thing as meeting someone at the wrong time. If something doesn’t work out for you and someone else, that means they are the wrong person for you.

Plain and simple.

The right people are those who are worth making time for, regardless of your place in life. It’s impossible to meet your person at the wrong time because real, wholesome relationships aren’t limited by time. With the right person, any issue of timing doesn’t matter. It’s irrelevant.

The right people are those who make everything about your life better since they walked into it. They make you want to forget about the past and dive, head-first, into an exciting new future. The right relationship doesn’t make you ask all the what-if's and why-nots — you just know that it’s right. The right relationship is the one that makes all the other ones you’ve experienced utterly unimportant.

Stop thinking too hard. Stop analyzing every little detail about every encounter you have, every challenge that comes your way when planning for the future. It’s a simple truth: if they’re the right person for you, everything will fall into place so beautifully.

Allow it to happen.