When You Chase Those Who Were Meant to Leave

The other day I caught myself thinking about how often we try to hold on to things that are already slipping away.

It can be a person, a friendship, an opportunity, even an old version of ourselves. And the instinct kicks in: maybe if I try harder… maybe if I hold on tighter… I won’t lose it.

But here’s the truth: when you chase what was meant to leave, you tell yourself you are not enough without it.

Chasing isn’t love.
Chasing isn’t devotion.
Chasing is fear disguised as effort.

It sends a quiet message into the world, and back to yourself:
I am incomplete without this.
I will accept less than I deserve just so I don’t lose it.

And that message keeps you stuck in lack.

Lack only attracts more lack.

You cannot run after what’s walking away and expect peace, joy, or alignment to meet you at the same time.

Letting go is the opposite energy.
Letting go says: I trust life to bring what belongs. I trust myself to hold my own wholeness.

Think about it.

Every time you held on to something too long, it only created more suffering.
Every time you released — even when it hurt — space opened.
Space is where peace enters. Space is where clarity finds you.

Letting go doesn’t mean you didn’t care.
It doesn’t mean the story didn’t matter.
It simply means you’ve decided to stop carrying what isn’t carrying you back.

So the next time you feel the urge to chase what’s leaving, pause.

Ask yourself:

• Am I holding on because this truly belongs in my life?

• Or because I’m afraid of the space it will leave behind?

The deepest truth is this: what is meant for you will stay. What is not will leave.

Not through force.
Not through proving.
Not through shrinking yourself.

It will stay because it’s aligned. Because it belongs.

Let them go. The space they leave is the space where you can finally breathe.