Growth

I remember being so sad. We all are after heartbreak, I know this. But somehow my pain felt unique, like mine was different and greater than anyone else had felt. 

     In my mind I knew this was untrue.... but in a way it gave me permission to stay in and watch movies and shut out the people trying to love me. 

     Sadness does this, doesn’t it? It craves isolation to reaffirm that we’re alone, when we’re really not if we were to look around. I learned through the pain that we choose what we do with it. 

     Someone once told me that the pain will leave you once it’s felt. I don’t think that’s true, because a lot of us live in our pain. We feel it constantly.

     We use it as an excuse, a crutch. Pain leaves when it instigates change. When we use it to grow and become the person who looks back at the hurt and feels grateful for the heart expansion and the understanding it created. Until then, pain is just a feeling. It has no purpose. Give it purpose by giving yourself growth.