Heartbreak 101

What does a heartbreak entail?

When you get your heart broken, there's this unexplicable amount of pain that grips your heart so tight, even breathing becomes difficult. You lose your sense of direction, you lose all enthusiasm and you lose the gusto to live. You sit in one corner, oblivious to your surroundings, watching as the world goes by in a blur. And you don't care. At all.

Some say the pain they're feeling is far more greater than that of the others. Others say it's nothing compared to how their hearts are breaking. But in reality, there is no such thing as greater pain due to different types of reasons. There is only pain. How we handle it is what intensifies or lessens it. Regardless of the reason, regardless of the time, one thing is for sure: we will never be the same afterwards. There is that tiny part of you that went down the drain. No matter how you try to get it back, you can't. You just can't. However, the scars remain not to remind you of the ache but to remind you of how you were once brave enough to risk and love and that you can do it again, you should.

For the meantime, you know what you have to do. You know you need to get over it and move on. Easier said than done. Way, way, waaaaaaaaaaaay easier. The mind says do this and yet the heart remains still.

It's ok to wallow in pain. It's ok to take as much time as we need in making sure our hearts are ready to be back out in the open once again. Not entirely healed but recovered, nonetheless. It's ok to mope and to give in to that excruciating pain within us. It's ok to do all this as we slowly pick up the pieces and put them back together, hoping against hope, it'd be whole again.

We just have to make sure that we can pull ourselves through and that we will see ourselves out of this predicament. We have to make sure that we can still be able to see the light despite the black, empty void engulfing us. Lastly, we have to make sure that we do not lose ourselves in the process of fixing our broken hearts.