Always go with your gut.
Everything happens for a reason. People are in your life for a purpose, people leave your life for a reason. Situations occur, good or bad, to teach you life lessons. You go through the every day motions of life without realizing you are learning each moment you are awake. Whether it is how you complete your daily routine or who you talk to throughout each day, you are constantly learning. You are learning about others, the world around you and most importantly you are learning about yourself. Take every day as a new lesson, and every lesson as a new perspective of life.
Don't hold on to bad situations from the past that you can't learn from. Instead, replay that situation in your head and find and realize the lesson you could have learned. Understand what caused the issue and what you could have been done to better the situation and better yourself. Don't take a situation from the past that hurt you and make you afraid of the future. Nothing from your past should stop you on pursing something today that your heart is telling you to do. Rather than being afraid of your past, take a step back and try to learn and understand that you are stronger than you were in the past. You have grown as a person, matured in certain situations, and are in a completely different situation and surrounding from your past.
Take advantage of bad situations and things in your life that have hurt you. Throughout your life you are going to have to go through a time of hurt and sadness about someone to learn rights from wrongs and what to look out for the next time. Don't let that hurt and sadness stop you from living the rest of your life. Yes, it may scare you to jump back into things with someone else, but take your past experience and realize what went right and what went wrong and how you can incorporate that into your new relationship.
One day you will come to realize the good in every situation that happens in your life. Whether you benefit from it, or just take it as a life lesson you will carry on with you as you grow as a person, take every day and situation for granted. You grow most as a person by learning from yourself. You teach yourself right from wrong with success and failure. You teach yourself different life lessons from trying and achieving. You teach yourself lessons to better yourself from attempt and failure. And most importantly you teach yourself the most important lesson of learning through the past and taking the good out of it to better yourself for the future.
