The art of letting your heart remain breakable

There are going to be times when you simply fall in love with the wrong person. It’s going to hurt like hell, but it will teach you more than any book ever could.

You won’t see it at first. You’ll feel like your heart is shattering into tiny, unfixable pieces and your chest is being torn apart. Like there is no salvation for you in this lifetime, and you are doomed to forever search for fragments of yourself in your memories. Like there is no “you” without them.

But you will still wake up every day. And you will get up. Every single day. You will live through the pain.

At first, you won’t even notice it, but a subtle sense of relief will come. One day, you’ll cry a little less. One day, you’ll smile without faking it. And then, one day, you’ll wake up and realize that your scars have turned into wings. That the weight has been lifted off your chest. You will look back without shattering into pieces. You will see your own mistakes, but you won’t blame anyone.

Because you finally accept it all. And you are alive again. And you let your heart remain breakable, because you know that’s part of it all.

Because in order to feel love, you have to befriend pain, too.