No matter how long it takes to heal from a broken heart, every lost love leaves a serious scar. Sometimes you probably feel like there’s no way you can go on, but you can. In fact, if you can survive the pain of a broken heart (and you will), you can make it through just about anything.
- What doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger. It’s a cliche for a reason. The hits might keep coming, but as long as you keep getting back up, you’ll be okay. You’re not weakened by your failures. You find strength in learning from your mistakes. You try and sometimes you fail, but when success finally comes, you’ll know you’ve earned it.
- Emotional pain sometimes feels physical, but it still heals in time. Is there any way to measure heartbreak in real terms? Considering heartbreak is all about feelings, it certainly manages to affect you physically. Lethargy, literal heartache, exhaustion… the list goes on and on. But like most physical injuries, even this pain will heal with time, as hard as that is to believe.
- If you did it once, you can do it again. If you can get through the pain of a broken heart once, you can do it again. As much as you hope that the next guy will be a little more careful with your fragile heart, you could end up back in the same place if things don’t work out. The good thing is, once you’ve rebounded once, the next time is just a little bit easier because you know there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.
- With great risk comes great reward. You risk your heart for a chance at true love — now that’s a gamble. Everyone wants to find true love, but something so great doesn’t come without disadvantages. You face rejection, you feel like you’ll die from the heartbreak, but still you survive. Why? Because the chance to love again will always be worth it.
- You get knocked down and you get right back up again. The more you do it, the easier it gets. Life knocks you down, but you just keep pulling through. It can seem overly tough and unfair sometimes, but as long as you keep trying, you’ll always get through it (no matter how much it feels like you won’t in the moment).
- You might never forget a lost love, but at least you can forgive him. That’s how you move on from things — you forgive but never forget. You put it in the past, but you also learn from it. You have to find the strength to forgive him not so HE feels better, but so you do. You’re looking out for yourself. You’re putting your own happiness first, and that’s what’s going to get you to the finish line.
- You don’t need a guy to survive. One of the greatest lessons you learn from a broken heart is that you can survive just fine on your own. You find your independence and learn how to depend on yourself rather than on a boyfriend. He was the one person you thought you could count on and when he exited your life, you had nothing and no one but yourself. You found strength on your own, and now that you’ve survived that heartache, you can survive anything.
