Most of the time after a tough break-up, it's hard to know how to go on. This is especially true if it's the first time you've had your heart broken. It's crucial to get past the fear of the unknown, so you can find something much better - something new.
There is this thing called new love. It’s the love we find after our first love. It's the love that teaches us that there is a world beyond the horizon of what we once thought was everything we wanted, everything we needed. Whether we broke her heart or he broke ours, this new love is different. It lights up pathways of our brains that we didn’t know existed; it makes us feel things we never thought were real.
New love is tainted. It’s not pure like first love because it inhabits lives that have already been touched and felt. It exists in those who have already had fingers trace their spines from their necks to their hips and those who have already been screamed at and ripped apart and built back up so high that they could dance on the sun.
We embrace new love. We take it into our arms and hold it tightly because we now know how fragile it can be. We know that it can turn the key in the ignition and drive away faster than the earth can rotate around the sun and for that reason, we treasure it far more than we ever treasured first love.
New love is forgiving. New love knows that sometimes we need to look at an old photograph, or listen to an old song, and cry. And when we do, new love holds us, tells us we are okay, and kisses the scars that first love has left on the backs of our hands; scars that will never disappear completely, but will fade with each phase of the moon and passing of the earth and coming and going of the seasons. For if we learned anything from first love, it is that nothing endures.
So as we continue on each of our own little paths, we must remember that it's critical for us to push forward through the sleepless nights and dreaded days of breakups, so that we can give new love a chance.
