I want to tell you something that may sound strange. You, my beautiful friend, are not broken. Your heart, it is not broken. It’s bruised and it’s battered and it’s wounded like you didn’t think possible, but it is not broken.
One thing I want to say straight out; I will not try to take him from you. I have come to understand that it is possible to miss something without wanting it back. I miss our family and our home but I also know that it could never go back to the way it was.
We had a beautiful near-decade together and seeing it all through a screen of anger would diminish the beauty of what we had.
We are great at being creative, assertive, finding inspiration and identifying problems. We are not always so great at keeping our cool.
You’ll get put into categories that you have judged others for being in. It will teach you understanding and empathy. It will teach you that there is always so much more to a person’s story that the assumptions we make about them.
When you have a lot to juggle, the most valuable thing in the world is energy.