Learning to pick myself back up from heartbreak is one of the most difficult things I have done. Learning to find the best pieces of myself were taken from me by someone I thought was going to be there for me, hurt me on levels I never knew existed. I reinvented part of myself as I was rising up from the ashes, though, into a person I had never been before. A stronger version of myself, one that knew I deserved more than to be alone, crying on my floor, begging for someone who was never going to come back to me - who was probably never fully there to start with.

When I was going through this period of heartbreak, I felt like my world was ending. I felt as if I had lost the one that I was supposed to be with forever and somehow this was my fault, but this was not the case at all. I had to learn the hard way that sometimes people are just not meant to be in your life. I didn't realize this overnight, and for a while I became very bitter and took it out on anyone who crossed my path.

I started to realize this was not the way I wanted to live. I couldn't let someone control me who didn't care at all whether I was at peace or suffering, so I started transitioning myself into someone I loved again. I started to find the confidence in myself that was stripped of me, I found the will in myself to move on past everything that had ever hurt me because life isn't about dwelling on the past - it's about looking forward. I became the person I looked forward to being again everyday, and it took me two months to realize I still had this girl in me some where.

Heartbreak is like a pot of boiling water, you can either let it make you hard or you can let it soften you. You have to find a will inside of you to move past all of the pain that lingers, and let go of everything holding you back. You cannot became angry, or live in a constant state of sadness. Life is to be lived, and not to be lived by just going through the motions. Heartbreak is a terrible thing, but it is also a learning experience, a tool to show you how strong of a person you really are. It also shows you what you really want of life, and out of yourself. If your heart is never broken, how would you ever expect to form any expectations?

I'm thankful for my heartbreak looking back, it made me a stronger person with a will to go further than that low point in my life. It taught me expectation, about loyalty, honesty and most of all myself. I'm thankful for every lesson it taught me, because I'm stronger and I am wiser because of it.