Heartbreak

Someone shared: Hello beautiful souls. ... Heartbreak is so hard!

Wonderfully hard. It is one side-effect of deep love.

My 17-year old son once told me he wanted to experience everything, even sadness, heartbreak, and loss. That seemed very wise and adventurous to me. It changed my relationship with negativity. A decade later, stuff happened and I became very depressed. Even to the point of thinking it would be better if life ended. But through it all, I realized it was just a part of my brain that was depressed, and the way it showed life to be hopeless was just a view, not the only truth. It was painful, but awesome to witness the strength of those feelings.

I learned that I am not my feelings. I am the one that feels them. I am not my personality. I am the one that animates it and brings it to others. I am not my circumstances. I am the one that creates life out of it. I am not just a character. I am also the actor.

I once was told: No one is coming to save you. And you are not alone.

Hello.