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From Pain to Peace

Healing, Growing, and Finding Inner Calm.

By Yami VermaPublished 2 years ago • 4 min read

The fear of losing loved ones is something we all experience. How will I live when this person goes away? What will I do if this person leaves me? These thoughts often consume our minds. If we want to live powerfully, even after they leave, we have to stop creating such thoughts now.

In life, when someone is going through immense pain—whether in their body or their role—it often means their time is nearing its end. Sometimes, even doctors say they’ve tried everything, and nothing more can be done. Yet, what holds them back? It’s often our inability to let them go.

Some people leave peacefully, while others struggle and suffer in their current state. Why? Because the people around them don’t want them to go. Is this love? We call it love, but true love says: “Your body or your role is no longer working. Your time here is filled with suffering. It’s okay for you to go.” Selfishness, on the other hand, says: Please stay, i cannot live without you.

Just like this, in our relationships, there are times when someone wants to leave. They might feel suffocated, unhappy, or simply disconnected. But instead of allowing them to go peacefully, we hold to them. We fear, “How will I live without this person?” or “What will I do without them in my life?”

But holding someone doesn’t heal the relationship; it often worsens the situation. It traps both people in an endless cycle of pain and suffering. When someone wants to leave, and we hold on tightly out of fear or dependency, we’re not showing love—we’re showing selfishness.

This selfishness is not love. Love is when we care about their peace and happiness, even if it means letting them go. When someone wants to leave, we often fear, “How will I live without them?” But love says, “You should be happy.” Selfishness says, “Be here for me. But True love lets go because it thinks about what’s best for them, not just about ourselves.

When we think only of ourselves, it becomes harder for the other person to live their life freely. True love helps them leave with dignity. It becomes easy to let go when we love deeply, but it’s difficult when we worry only about ourselves.

Sometimes, people don’t want to leave because they are attached to their loved ones. They fear how their family or close ones will survive without them. This creates confusion in relationships. To think, “They can’t live without me” or “I can’t live without them” is not love—it’s ego.

Love empowers. It teaches us to live independently while cherishing the moments we have together. This way, we prepare ourselves for any eventuality. Our energy holds people together, but sometimes it also traps them in unnecessary suffering.

When someone leaves, it’s natural to remember them. But the emotion with which we remember them matters. We can either remember them with pain or with peace, love, and power. Knowing the truth of life helps us focus on loving, caring, and creating beautiful memories while we’re together.

Life is short, and when we realize this, we start loving people more deeply. We become kinder, more caring, and more present. This way, even if someone fades away, we’ll have the strength and power to overcome the grief. The loss will not be traumatic because we’ve lived a life of love and understanding.

Trying to stop someone from leaving is like trying to stop the flow of life. It’s impossible. Life keeps moving. Accepting and respecting this truth helps us live peacefully.

Actually the fear of losing someone often comes from attachment. We think attachment is love, but it’s actually emotional dependency. And dependency is weakness. Attachment means our state of mind depends on someone’s state of mind and we all know that their behaviour and actions will not always match our expectations, and this creates pain.

In other hand “Detachment” doesn’t mean distancing ourselves or not caring. It’s not about being indifferent. True detachment means our happiness is not tied to another person’s actions. Even if someone behaves poorly, we remain calm and undisturbed. When we’re overly attached, expectations, anger, and rejection become common. Over time, this leads to complications in relationships. We lose our inner power, becoming unable to make the right decisions for ourselves, for others, or for the relationship.

But true detachment is rooted in acceptance and unconditional love. It allows us to give love without being consumed by the other person’s emotions. When we are detached, we can understand others better, find solutions to problems, and avoid conflicts. Our relationships thrive when built on thoughts of love and perspectives of understanding, not dependency. Letting go, when necessary, with love and dignity is the highest form of care. Detachment is not the absence of love—it is love in its purest and most liberating form.

So, The reality is that people will leave. When they will go, we don’t know. Where they will go, we don’t know. When we will go, we don’t know. The truth is that we all have to go. What’s important is how we live while we are here. Let’s create beautiful vibrations for ourselves and for them, for our loved ones. This way, while we are here, we will be happy. If we go, we will be happy. If they go, we will still be fine.

And, Stop being afraid of losing people and start being afraid of losing yourself.

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Yami Verma

Journey to Light – Words That Inspire

Hi, I’m Yami Verma, the voice behind Journey to Light—a space where thoughts flow freely, and life’s experiences turn into words that inspire, heal, and uplift.

Visit my blog: journeytolight.in

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