I know what you're thinking, this is another article about a breakup that went wrong and how it ended up being my own fault. However, this story is much different because it is about my journey throughout high school up until the past couple months. This is my journey of finding myself and making sure that my heart doesn't get broken like that ever again.

I want to be blunt with you, I broke my own heart because I put all of my happiness and effort into something that I knew was going to fail me. The fact that people aren't perfect is a blessing and a curse within itself and let me tell you why. It's a blessing because when people hurt us, we can use the excuse that we all make mistakes and that at the end of the day, it won't make that much of a difference. It's a curse because since they will keep on making mistakes regardless of how much effort they put in, they will put us down and make us upset.

When someone told me about how we can't put our happiness in other people, that was really hard to accept and understand. Basically what I had been doing for my entire life with friendships and relationships have been wrong. I constantly started to think about what has made me upset in the past and many of the problems were based on my friends letting me down or a boy making me upset. I still couldn't believe the statement I was told, so I eventually started thinking of people who haven't failed me.

Think about your best friend and how many good things she or he has done for you. We are all so lucky to have those kinds of people in our lives because they most always have our back. However, think of a time that they made you sad, even if it was something going on in their life. I kept on coming back to the point that God is the only one who hasn't failed me, even when I sometimes think he should. He is the one that has always been there for me and it's okay to put your happiness in him.

One of the key takeaways I hope all of you can learn is that sometimes you need to reevaluate your priorities are. It's easy to start putting others before yourself and that just isn't the whole point of life. In the past, I never thought twice about doing something for someone else over myself. Isn't it sad that it takes us so long to realize our own overall health is so much more important than a silly boy who was in your life for just a short period of time? Make sure that you don't break your own heart next time because let me tell you, it's not worth it.