To all the broken hearted, this one’s for you,

Heartbreak is a special kind of pain. It’s a pain you can’t describe. And it’s a pain you wouldn’t wish on anyone, not even your worst enemy. And you don’t know what it’s like until you experience it for yourself. While it’s something most people go through in their life journey, nothing can really prepare you for it.

When you live with a broken heart, every day is a constant battle. Even if things leave you at such a loss, you still have to get up and go to school, go to work, see your loved ones, and just be “normal”. Life doesn’t care if you’re fighting to hold back tears at every waking moment. Life doesn’t care that you feel sick to your stomach because of how upset you are. Life doesn’t care that you’re mentally exhausted because your mind won’t let you stop thinking about what has left you heartbroken. Some days are easier. Some days are harder. But it never really leaves you.

Everywhere you turn, there’s something that reminds you of the person you’re missing. You’re driving down the road, and you hear that song…the one you listened to with them all the time. You go to the same restaurant the two of you used to go to. You smell the smell of the candle they had at their house or the cologne they wore. There really is no escaping it. It feels like this deep, indescribable pain just won’t go away.

Somehow though, through all of this, you manage to get out of bed and move forward. You still laugh and smile with your friends, but your heart still hurts. This heartbreak is still hanging over your head like a dark storm cloud, ready to burst with rain and wreak havoc on everything around you at any moment. But you somehow still manage.

But all of this doesn’t mean you can’t heal.

The old phrase says that time heals everything. And although that might seem crazy, it’s true. No matter how hard it seems, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. You just have to keep fighting that pain until you win the battle. In the famous words of Dr. Seuss, “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened”, look toward the future with bright eyes. Because you’re strong. You’re stronger than this battle. You’re stronger than this pain. And you will come out of whatever has left you heartbroken even stronger than you were before.