I know it sounds crazy to think you have found the one at 18 years old, but I did. I spent a year and a half with this person who I swore up and down was my soul mate. And then out of no where, he broke me. I felt useless, depressed, and unlovable. For weeks I cried myself to sleep telling myself I wasn't good enough. Then one day it hit me, I needed to make myself happy before I tried to rely on someone else to make me happy. For the past year and a half, I had secluded myself from everyone and everything that wasn't him. I hadn't taken opportunities that could have led me to the top. I decided that I would no longer consider myself broken, but fixed.

Since then, I haven't cried a single tear, I have improved my grades, become involved in more activities, and made new friends.

I feel free; open to make a life for myself. So this is to all of the girls reading this who feel like they aren't good enough. Stop. Stop texting him, stop calling him, stop looking at his posts, and stop crying over him. If after you do all of this he still doesn't come to you and show that he cares, then he isn't the one. That is when you will open your eyes for the very first time again. Everything will be new and it might be scary at first, leaving everything you have known for so long behind and starting anew, but trust me, it's worth it. Find things you used to love to do and do them. Tell yourself that he didn't deserve you, because honestly, he didn't. I had to constantly remind myself that I was beautiful and that I was worthy. I know it hurts, but being broken will come to be the best thing to happen to you, because it will fix you. Your broken soul will mend and eventually, when the time is right, you will learn to love again. Yourself and others, you will love it all, because you have been truly broken and understand how genuine, pure, and fragile love it. Being broken will give you a new perspective. It will give you the chance to find yourself again, and show others that you will not fall. Remind yourself daily that being broken is not the end, but only just the beginning to your happily ever after.