People come in your life ...

People come in your life for a Reason, a Season or a Lifetime. Each person is an answer to unasked questions and silent prayers made to almighty."

Here's an in-depth look at this concept.

REASON... People that come into your life for a reason are usually to meet a need that you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a GODSEND, and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrong doing on your part, or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die or they just walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered. And now it is time to move on.

SEASON... Then there are people that come into you for a season because your turn has come to share, grow or learn. They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it! It is real! But, only for a season.

LIFETIME... Then there are relationships for a lifetime. Lifetime relationships teach you lifetime lessons, things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person, and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life.

I have noticed that many times attraction is misunderstood as love and when the attraction dies, so does the relationship.

- lyanla (pronounced Ee-Yan-La) Vanzant (African-American speaker)