In life, we meet a lot of people,  some good, bad, interesting, annoying and a whole lot. 

We learn from all these people, some help us go through life and not life going through us.

But among these people are those who are only there to steal the best days of our life. These thieves come strolling into our lives like babies who are yet to get a little sin on them.

We see them as the best people when they arrive and the worst mankind to ever come into our lives when they go.

They only come to take and not give, control and not compromise, command and not commit.

They 'help' us push away the best people in our life away and start ruining our lives.

We all have met these people and some are still seeing such people. The problem with most of us is that we see the red flag but we make excuses.

You have a boyfriend who hits you and you make excuses for him and stay with him for years when your mother will not raise her hand to you.

He cheats on you like his life depends on it and anytime you catch them they go down on their knees and cry their eyes out and repeatedly say 'baby I'm sorry, I don't know how it happened and I didn't mean it. I love you so much that I couldn't dream of hurting you please forgive me.'

You have a friend who you'll hang out with all day doing nothing productive, just partying, drinking, gossiping and chatting all day, all week.

The same friend will tell other people all that is going on in your life, behind your back but you love her so much that you are not just blind to whatever they are doing but you are equally blind to what you are doing to yourself. 

You know the funny thing, some of them do not even know they are stealing your time, your youth and the best days of your life. 

You spend years with these people and realize only later how much you have messed up.

At a young age of twenty, you enter college and spend all four years of that period entangling yourself with people who make you cry most of the time instead of studying.

After school, they leave you alone drowning in tears and self-pity while they take four years of your life away. The time you could make the best out of everything. 

The most infuriating thing is we refuse to let them go, following them like lost puppies and wasting another bunch of years. When reality sets in we still do not walk away but plan our revenge forgetting that karma exists.

We fill ourselves with rage while planning our revenge and there even when they are not with us, we are willingly giving our time to them and risk pushing the people who could've made us better away.

We cannot keep allowing people to steal things like that from us. We have got to give our life something better.

So when we see the red flag, the things that the evidence tells us that we are fighting a lost battle, we should run away even if those people are ones we love most.

Leaving a friend you consider family or a relationship you worked so hard on is like ripping your heart out.

You are afraid you'll be alone in your late years without the love and the company you were expecting.

It is painful and most times you feel like death is at your door. Because of this,  many of us want to avoid such pain and stay in that toxic we call a relationship.

But we forget that being alone does not necessarily mean we are lonely. We have to learn how to be by ourselves first else people will always take advantage of us.

Since nothing in life is easy we have to give ourselves the chance to feel that pain, go through it and learn from such experience. 

The pain we're so afraid of will only fade into a memory we will tuck away and life continues.