Love can be a beautiful, unique thing.

Love can also be tragic and painful.

Your young adulthood is going to be composed of some of the most unpredictable years of your life. Those years are going to be full of spontaneity and change. They’re going to be full of graduating for high school, going off to college, deciding what you want to be for the rest of your life, maybe changing your mind on that, staying up all night, going on spontaneous road trips, attending crazy concerts, moving away, coming back.

It is so crazy.

It is so great.

While all of this is going on, you are going to fall in lust and in love.

And sometimes you’re going to fall in love and it will be a good love. But, for some reason, it won’t last, and that thought alone will break your heart.

Maybe you’re at two different spots in your life.

Maybe your hearts aren’t mature enough for each other yet.

Maybe you have physically been separated and the distance is too much.

Maybe you just need more life experiences before you find each other again.

Being apart is going to be terribly more painful than being together, but it is going to be necessary.

Perhaps while you’re apart, you’ll find ‘the one.’ You’ll find someone else who makes your heart happier than it’s been before; you will find something that you didn't know was missing.

Perhaps while you’re apart, you’ll realize that life sucks without that person. You’ll go about your lives separately, but your lives will merge again into one and this time it will be good and perfect because the timing will be right.

My parents dated for a while and broke up for two years. But, they ended up getting back together and are now happily married over 25 years with two kids. We have an amazing family, but they said that if they got married the first time they were together, it wouldn’t have worked. They lived through the wrong timing, and now they’re still living through the right timing.

Sometimes the first time you fall for someone it is the perfect timing, but it is possible to meet the right person at the wrong time.