The Aftermath Of Heartbreak

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 When your heart breaks, the aftermath can do so many things to you. It can make you scared. Vulnerable. Reckless. It can also make you strong, resilient, and wise. Once you face the storm head on you realize you are still standing, or even if you're  just crawling, that you are still alive. This wasn't  the end for you. You faced something you were terrified of and you came out on the other side a different person, a stronger person even if it doesn’t feel that way right now.
And I know when you look back on it you might wish you hadn't  had to go through it. We say "But what if?" or "It could've been different." Yet there are no what ifs. It wasn't  different. So now you take the hand you were dealt and you learn how to become better because of it. Because guess what? Being heartbroken has the chance to let you do that.

See, when your heart shatters, and the cracks form, it can be tempting to fill them with various different things. We might want to seal them up with cement, holding us together and making it harder to get through. We can fill them with hatred or vengeance, and let it consume all that we are, cursing the people who put us in this place. We might try to fill them with temporary happiness, only to watch them dissolve and leave the cavities open again.

Yet we also have a chance to fill it them with empathy, expanding ourselves to understand others better.

Or fill them with hope for when the next time love ends up coming our way again. Or even fill them with memories, so that we don't forget the lessons we learned before.‎

When your heart broke, it gave you a chance to expand and stretch it beyond anything you could fathom, to rebuild it, and guess what? It's still beating. It's  still going.

And so are you.

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