A Letter to Heartbreak

Dear Heartbreak

*compilation of many of our heartbreaks 

Thank you.

Thank you for coming into my life when I least expected it.

Thank you for helping me realize who I am and who I want to become.

I've been afraid of you during my entire life, reluctant to love for fear of finding you along the way.

Thank you, I learned what real love feels like because of you. With you, I learned how to cry and be sad and how to let go of the things that hurt me the most.

But I need you to stop telling me that all these beautiful memories are just supposed to make me feel sad.

Because they were beautiful moments. Some of them I want to cherish forever, and I will not let you take them.

I don't hate you. You are not bad, you just feel bad, and it is hard to control you sometimes. 

Thank you so much; I can finally see myself because of you. You helped me bloom into the person I am today, into a beautiful, loving human that wants to know love again.

So thank you, heartbreak, for forcing me back to myself, to my friends and family, to my power and strength.

You have many names and forms, many genders and nationalities, you've been in the life of most of the people I know; you've brought me closer to people I didn't think I could get close to.

Yes, it was scary realizing how vulnerable I can be with you in my life, but thanks to you, I learned how to grow from it and find the way back to myself. But most importantly, how to appreciate love.

Thank you, because of you, I learned that love is beautiful, complex, twisted, and indescribable. I learned that love can result from how much I adore myself. 

I realized that I want to get to know love better, to cherish it. I learned that I want love to hold me tight and always be with me. Even if you're here. Because of you, I understood that I need to express my love for that person and myself. I learned that love is the reason I want to be a better person. 

I learned that love can hide most of the time, but it is the best time of my life when I'm with it. 

Thanks to you heartbreak, I learned to bring love with me everywhere. I learned that I want love to surround me and everyone in this beautiful world. 

I learned that I want to love without fear of not having that love back.

Thank you, heartbreak, because I learned to love you. To be thankful to the person I have become since you came into my life. To be grateful to the person that brought you into my life because if it weren't for them, I would have never met you, and I would have never met this part of myself. 

The part that is ready to love again, the same part that is now in love with love. That part that thanks love and knows that love is worth it. 

Thank you, heartbreak. Because I learned that I want love to remain in my life forever. Even if it is not romantic, passionate love. Just a love that makes me feel myself and be confident with my feelings, dreams, and capability to love again.

So thank you heartbreak, for, without you, I would never have learned how to love again.

With all my newfound love,

L