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Sometimes we meet the right person at the wrong time.

Writer: Mayank Singhal
Mayank Singhal
Aug 23
2 min read


“What stays without force was yours, what leaves despite every effort just came to teach you”



Two good people can meet, love each other, and still not end up together. Sometimes life or the universe, simply has a different plan.


Because not every journey ends with two people walking together. Some journeys exist only to teach us how to walk on our own.



And it doesn’t means that the person was wrong, sometimes, life simply meets love at the wrong time.



Universe had a different plan for Aisha.


Aisha happy with Kabir
Aisha happy with Kabir

Aisha loved Kabir and always thought she would marry him. But when she was ready for marriage, he wasn’t.



She waited, hoping one day he would be ready too.


On day he said “I love you, but I’m not ready to get married.”


Months passed, but his answer didn’t change. Eventually, she left.



For a long time, Aisha thought,

Why couldn’t he choose me?



Years later, Aisha married someone else and Kabir moved abroad to chase his dreams.


Aisha married with someone else
Aisha married with someone else

It took her years but she finally understood, Kabir wasn’t a bad person. He simply wasn’t the person she was meant to build her life with.


Neither of them was wrong.


They were simply right for each other at the wrong time.




Love is not the only thing that matters:


Research on relationships has found that loving someone and being ready to build a life with someone are not always the same thing. Studies show that when people feel ready for a serious relationship, they are more likely to put effort into it and stay committed.



In very simple words, you can meet a wonderful person at a time when they are simply not ready for what you want.



And sometimes, we blame ourselves for that. Was I not enough? Why didn’t they choose me? What could I have done differently?



But maybe there was nothing you could have done differently.





Maybe Some Endings Are Protecting Us


Sometimes, an ending feels completely wrong when it happens. We question why they left, why things couldn’t work, and why life didn’t give us what we wanted.



We keep questioning What if?


Sometimes, years later, we meet someone else. We build a different life. We become a different version of ourselves. And suddenly, something that once felt like the worst ending of our life starts making a little more sense.


Maybe that’s the universe at play.



Sometimes the universe will take something away from you just to make room for something greater.
Sometimes the universe will take something away from you just to make room for something greater.

Not every person who leaves our life was bad for us. And not every relationship that ends was a mistake.


It is simply right person at the wrong time.


Have you ever met the right person but it wasn’t the right time?





Say the Unsaid. Open The Diary And finally write what you have been carrying.



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