You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Even if you end relationships like marriage or employment, those people remain part of your life's story.
- In plain terms
- You can end relationships but those people are still part of your life story.
- What can you take from it?
- Past relationships remain part of your life story even after they end.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Who remains in your story?
- How do past people shape you?
Another view
Some relationships can be so toxic they should be erased from memory.
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