I think in life, it’s beautiful how a certain person can bring us to a moment of acceptance and welcoming. Accepting that heartbreak is inevitable and welcoming the love that will eventually hurt us. We realize, that the love we feel is worth every ounce of the potential or inevitable pain. It’s in realizing that we can’t truly experience love without heartbreak, and finding the person that we feel at our core, is worth that experience. Finding the person that fills our hearts up with so much joy and passion, even if only for a small amount of time; for years or for decades or for the rest of our time existing on this earth. We meet people, We connect with them, and we have a moment of saying to ourselves, I love this person and I am welcoming in the potential heartbreak because the love I feel for them makes it worth it. Through allowing ourselves to love, we also grow and learn more about ourselves, which is why I think there are so many different forms and experiences in love. It’s in those different relationships and forms of heartbreak that we gain strength in vulnerability and a new level of emotional understanding.

When we experience heartbreak, we feel a physical pain. A physical ache, and a feeling like a part of us is missing. When we love, we welcome another person into a part of ourselves, so when we lose them, there is a part of us that is missing. It is our job to heal from that, and fill that missing part. Once we do that we grow stronger. We build ourselves from one of the lowest and most painful human experiences to a stronger more resilient individual. It’s not always that easy either, it’s not a straight low to high experience. Its an experience that flows in waves. There are good days, and there are bad days, and the process of healing is honestly a never ending journey. That never ending journey allows us to grow more and more. That never ending journey allows us to experience life fully, the beautiful and the painful.

Understand life as we understand the ocean. There is this flow to it that we experience and understand and then there’s the deeper aspects of it that we have no clue about, but we’re figuring it out.

Understand love, as an important part of life, and heartbreak as the thing that goes hand-in-hand with it. It hurts but it’s also amazing and beautiful and all a part of being a human.