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Let Your Pain Be Your Motivation

Be better than they were to you.

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Let Your Pain Be Your Motivation
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You’ve been hurt by your boyfriend, your best friend, parent or anyone for that matter. Hurt because of the things that you thought you knew, but you found out you don’t. Hurt over something that everyone says, “Shouldn’t matter.” Well, it does matter.

On the bright side, now you know. You could’ve gone your whole life believing something that was not true. Wouldn’t you rather go through the hurt and know the truth? Would it be better to go through life living a lie? Right now you think, "I wish I didn't know," but it’s better this way. This won’t be the last time you will be hurt, and more than likely, it isn’t the first either.

Hurt is the rawest emotion you will ever experience. You will never ever find anything that will leave such an impact on your life. You will, unfortunately, remember this pain forever. You will never forget the days that you’ve been hurt. You’ll also never forget the people who hurt you. The pain will lessen. You will move on — graduate, get married, move, get a new job — whatever it is that catapults you into your next chapter. You wont think about the pain daily anymore.

Subconsciously, it will become your motivation. It will become the reason that you learn to be careful whom you give your love to. Now, you will be scared to trust, which will be good and bad. You will give people a “trial period.” If they pass, then you’ve earned a true friend. Since you’ve been hurt, you will learn how to use your anger, pain and sadness to better your life. You will learn that you don’t need certain people and that there are others that you will need. You know now what it’s like to believe things that aren’t true, and you’ll try your best to never let it happen again.

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