The people will come and go. Sometimes they'll be there for you. Sometimes they wont. Some will love you, some... — Yasmin Mogahed

The people will come and go. Sometimes they'll be there for you. Sometimes they wont. Some will love you, some will not. This tide was never meant to be still. Step away from time to time. And know that only a heart fixed on the unmoving spot can ride the waves of this ever-changing, ever-fading life.

Author: Yasmin Mogahed

Insight: We spend a lot of energy trying to make relationships permanent—expecting the same people to show up the same way forever. But Mogahed is pointing at something we actually experience but rarely name: people are always shifting. Your best friend moves away. A family member who was always reliable becomes distant. Someone you counted on disappoints you. The instinct is to feel betrayed, but she's suggesting this isn't a failure of love—it's just the nature of how life works. Attachment and detachment are constantly cycling through. The real insight isn't to stop caring about people. It's that you need an internal anchor so strong that other people's comings and goings don't destabilize you. That "unmoving spot" is whatever keeps you grounded when circumstances change—it might be your values, your sense of purpose, your connection to something larger than the moment. Without it, you're constantly thrown off balance by every shift in who's paying attention to you, who's arguing with you, who's left. The practical part is stepping back regularly—from social media, from the people-pleasing, from tracking whether you're being valued. Not to be cold, but to remember that your worth isn't a vote count. The waves will keep coming. The trick is having solid ground to stand on while they do.