It’s at this stage when people feel disheartened, disillusioned, and despairing. It’s the stage when people break up, quit their job, or leave a church. It’s the stage where we begin to see more flaws than beauty—a stage marked by greater impatience and frustration. It’s the period when people decide to leave a relationship or community, abandoning relationship altogether, or go on to search for the elusive heavenly stage once again. The cycle, however, never ends, and we never grow, because we are after something that doesn’t exist.
