what's not meant for you will hurt you a thousand times until you understand. it will keep showing up as disappointment, sleepless nights, and heavy feelings you can't explain. you will keep trying to make sense of it, fix it, or hold onto it, hoping one day it will finally feel right. but some things only stay in your life to teach you what peace should never cost. and the longer you force what was never truly yours, the more it drains you. some endings are not punishments, they are protection. sometimes the lesson is simple, if it keeps hurting you, it was never meant to stay.