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another one for the archives
from Dear Dolly-
the only thing that gets easier is that you know heartbreak ends eventually. the more it happens, the more certain you are that you'll be fine. you can't put an exact timeframe and it's never like the films. but one day you'll wake up and your ex won't be the first thing you think about.
heartbreak is like internal gridlock: for a while there's nowhere to move in a traffic jam of thoughts. then a tiny bit of space frees up without you realising and you can finally feel something else.
until then you need to distract yourself as much as possible and when distraction won't do its job, know that you're processing something. you might feel like you're wasting weeks of your life in meaningless pain but you're not. you're getting closer to the other side.
grief is an electric shock that tells us we are fully alive - it means we're connecting and creating and caring. we're participating. we're making the most of this short go. we're opening up and taking risks. next time you feel one of those further cracks of heartbreak, think of it as a strange sort of privilege. the magnitude of your loss reflects the magnitude of your love. you will not feel like this for ever, i promise, and what will be left is awe that you could love someone so much. you're experiencing something that will soften and harden you, give you strength and allow you to be weak. you loved someone and it changed you.
aren't we the lucky ones.
“some people feel like they don't deserve love. they walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”
“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
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