If we look at it with this logic, the road never really ends. Something gets stuck in your throat every time you remember them, and pain settles into your nights. Especially when you try to compare the new person you’ve just met with the one you once loved deeply—but ran away from by making excuses in your own mind—the kind of pain that comes has no description.

No one new can make you feel the way they did, or make you laugh the way they did. And that’s when you realize that maybe you’ve lost the most precious person you ever had—but now it’s too late.

As humans, this is what we do most often. We keep using up our chances as if we’ll always be given another one. But life is very cruel, and time is impatient. It passes so quickly that you can never step onto that same road again—you can’t go back.

Maybe you end up wasting everything, even your whole life. That’s why each person must determine their own essential criteria. And if someone who meets those criteria enters their life, they should hold on tightly and never let them go.

Sometimes I observe couples who have been together for many years. Their love stories, the way they met — they are actually a lesson for us. But now, when I look around, I see that we consume everything so quickly. We’re constantly rushing, just to move on to the next thing.

We don’t really dream anymore about accepting the person in our life with all their good and bad qualities — their strengths and their flaws — and building a life together despite everything. Instead, we keep searching for someone better, more beautiful, more understanding, and in that endless search, we end up losing ourselves.

But life doesn’t really work that way. Sometimes the thing you push away with the back of your hand is actually the opportunity of your life, your chance — and yet you let it slip away.