Don´t Expect Everyone To Stay by Kolby Ricketts

If someone has the heart and gut to leave me, I have learned, that they don't deserve to be in my life.

I have watched my family fall apart and break into pieces. My sister has ripped us entirely like a piece of paper. I was about 8-10 years old and she had done some things she should not have as well as getting kicked out of our house. At that point, I closed her door that I mentally made in my mind for her and locked it. People say, ¨ close a door and then open a new one.¨ That is exactly what I did. I believe she left for a reason. Maybe my sister wasn't meant to be a part in my future. So I closed her door and did not look back. Unfortunately, the door opened again, no matter how much I didn't want it to. Then, the exact same thing happened again ( came back then got kicked out again). Our ¨family¨ was as destroyed as it could be. After she had left, I created another mental door and bolted it shut. She could never enter my life again. I still believed she wasn't supposed to be involved with me, maybe God was trying to tell me somehow. I didn't know. I also was not mentally ready for her to be a part of me and my life. But guess what happened? My bolted door I made? Yea, she took a sledgehammer and knocked it down. My sister had found a way to sneak back and enter my future. Currently, I believe the events that happened has ruined us ( as a family) and me mentally and physically.

I believe not everyone is supposed to stay connected with us, as people. I believe she left for a reason but shouldn't have come back.


Now, I have used the events to realize that not everyone is meant to stay. I can´t just expect everyone to be in my life throughout eternity. If someone wants to walk out of my life, I'm letting them. But they´re not coming back in.