Hurt. What does it mean to be hurt? Was it the way you broke your ankle or the way someone broke your heart? Pain is a general thing everybody would like to avoid whether physical or emotional. But, the pain you feel in your ankle you broke falling off your bike will mend itself in due time. You even may learn a lesson from it that maybe you should avoid riding on that treacherous trail with all the too steep hills and deep holes you didn't see. A broken heart is not as easy to mend but can tie in with the way you learned your lesson after hurting yourself on the bike.

Our young lives are a time for taking risks--ones we may not be able to attempt when we're much older. With risks comes the chance of getting screwed over, rejected or burned. So with that possibility in mind, why bother? You see, it may sound crazy enough but getting hurt is actually important or even necessary when it comes to your future endeavors.

Maybe that person you've been seeing is not as great as they had seemed or maybe you've been rejected one too many times based off the unrealistic standards of incredibly shallow or closed-minded people. Whatever the case may be, there's a light at the end of what seems like a never-ending, dark tunnel.

There are lessons to be learned and ones that will make your mind broader and your skin thicker. You are given battles that you can handle even if it may seem like you can't. But with every fight you are given, you thrive a little more and more. It's like a dance in the boxing ring. You can handle the next punch that's stronger than the first. You can handle the people who seem more elitist than the last.

It may make you more weary of your actions, but don't allow heartbreak to consume your natural born life as a warrior and as a free-spirit. See that the guy or girl who broke your heart not as a blessing but a lesson. Rejection from your dream job or your peers is just a way of saying that the universe is telling you not to make these associations and to prevent any more toxicity to enter your life.

So you made a mistake. You might even feel a little stupid. The more experience you get, though, the wiser you become. You now know to look out for the holes or the steep heels that might send you off the deep end. Hell, you may even have a funny story to tell later.

There's also another positive light to shed on getting hurt and that is that something better is in store for you. Don't believe that for a second that if one thing remotely terrible happens to you that it's automatically the end of the road. If you've felt like you've hit rock bottom, remember the only direction you can go is up.