When People Walk Different Paths – a reflection by Kapil Srivastava

This happens mostly with people you love or care about.

You want to keep them alongside you, always. You imagine shared journeys, shared milestones, and shared understanding.

Weeks pass. Years pass.

There is a constant push and pull.

You seek a chemistry that perhaps never was, is not, and may never be. You keep hoping they will see what you see.

Perhaps because we are not only seeking understanding; we are also trying to prove something. That we matter. That our vision matters. That what feels important to us should feel important to them too.

But was the purpose ever the same to begin with?

That realization changes everything.

Not every person is meant to walk every season of life with us. Not every difference needs an explanation. Sometimes, it simply needs acceptance.

When people walk with you, be grateful. When they don’t, keep walking.

And sometimes, the purest form of love is to see them doing their thing, while you continue building what you were meant to build.