Anais begins this Diary entry with: "The physical as a symbol of the spiritual world. The people who keep old rags, old useless objects, who hoard, accumulate: are they also keepers and hoarders of old ideas, useless information, lovers of the past only, even in its form of detritus?"
She continues: "I have the opposite obsession. In order to change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally, one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use. I keep nothing to remind me of the passage of time, deterioration, loss, shriveling."
I suppose the same can be said of people in your life. You tend to find people you are meant to be with at a certain point in your life, and purpose is served, after which, both parties may move on. There's nothing wrong with that. If you force yourself to stay in friendships you've outgrown, you may feel trapped and unhappy.
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