Surviving Heartbreak

When Letting Go Is Love

The most important thing I've learned from heartbreak

Is that letting someone go is still a kind of love—

A quiet, tender love for them and a healing love for yourself,

You don't just stop loving them

When you set them free to find their own path.

You love them from a distance,

Like watching a shooting star fade into the night,

Knowing you can't keep it, but grateful you saw it shine.

It might not be the ending you wished for,

But some stories are written by fate,

Beyond the reach of your hands and heart.

You can choose to live without them,

To fill your days with new colors,

New faces, new moments that stretch like golden threads

In the tapestry of a life remade.

Or you can linger in the past,

A ghost haunting old memories,

Holding onto shadows where light no longer exists.

And you can tell yourself you hate them for leaving,

But if you truly love someone,

How can you hate them for chasing their own happiness,

For being true to themselves,

Even if that truth doesn't include you?

No, you cannot hate someone for leaving

When all you want is for them to find the peace

You once wished to build together.

So you let go, with a heart full of love,

And trust that one day,

The universe will repay you

With a new beginning

—MistakenGenius