The best thing, however, was my apology for forcing, pushing out of my own neediness, selfishness and arrogance. The truest love I could have shown would have been to just let him be. And in that vain, I say goodbye, not in anger or longing but in complete and full realization of the entire situation.
This, to me, is a profound insight. We truly only have the right and the obligation to live our own lives, and that is a hard won truth.
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