By: Yahya Aliyu
10 minutes, 10 days, 10 years.
For every meeting, there must be a parting.
A reminder of the impermanence of life;
Of its dreamlike and fleeting reality.
But parting gives us the chance to meet anew;
To experience that unique joy of reuniting.
It is what the french understood as retrouvailles:
“to find something again.”
Only after losing something can we fully understand its value,
The temporary loss experienced through partings,
can thus be seen as gifts;
Teaching us to value our relations with the time we have left.
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