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A Girl Walked into a Bar
by Michelle Montoro
You know that old philosophy that people come into your life for a reason?
Everyone has a purpose to serve within each encounter and each relationship. What that purpose is will differ with each individual dynamic and each separate event. Some people will push you. Some will challenge you. Some will question you. Some will teach you. Some will frustrate the hell out of you. Some will bring you pleasure. Some will bring you pain. Some will enrich you. Some will empower you. Some will feed your intellect. Some will fuel your soul. Some will hate you with a passion. And some will love you with no bounds.
So many will come into your life. And so many will subsequently leave. Many will stay around for a brief period of time. And many will be in your life forever. No matter the duration, the reason, the experience, each relationship that you have had in your lifetime will have served some purpose in creating the person who you are right now. And the people you will meet in the future will serve some purpose in creating the person you will become.
We are social creatures by our very nature. Some more so than others. But the reality remains that we do need one another for a million different reasons. Even as those reasons may not always be known to us, our experiences and relationships of every sort are still so…
