Howdy, forgotten dreamers and broken hearts. Let’s come to the reality of life, and make some common sense. Not everyone has a perfect ending when it comes to a relationship. In fact, about 99.999% of humanity experiences the faulty human error of having their soul ripped apart by a lover. Whether one is a young adolescent, or an experienced adult, the dire crash of love from a faulty handle practically burns you in confusing fire, if not numbs your mind and soul. Ouch. Now that’s a serious burn that seems nearly impossible to survive out of. The world seems out of whack, and life just seems …so dull.
Although it seems that this world is beating up on you like a punching bag, or a rotten piece of meat not fit for a scraper’s worth, you could dig yourself out of this pit. The pit around you is dark, black and cold, and the dirt seems slippery. The sun is hidden, and there seems to be no way out. What the heck are you suppose to do then? My answer, other than being sick of this long introduction, would be to start digging out. I could give you the tools in number; I just hope that you have enough endurance to use them.
1) Release your stress and emotion in a positive way.
This is the most important step in order to move on. If you have too much emotion inside that’s flooding to surge out, you have to focus it and find out how to release it. I highly, highly, wouldn’t suggest calling your ex to yell at them or beat them up. It’s not going to help get over them, and it’s going to hurt you more in the end. It’s hard to focus the pressure of stress, but it has to be done.
Run! Write puzzling poetry that makes no sense! A story without any line! Or dance to your heart’s content, until the dance feels like a hug. Sit with nature and enjoy the air, or paint. Play sports! Work harder, or scream where no one could hear you. Those emotions got to get out somehow, and you got to find that release. More importantly, make it a positive outlet. Control the stress, before the stress controls you.
If you wait, and you “bottle-up” as the term goes, you will explode and do what you would regret. For example, you end up yelling at your boss by accident. And…You’re fired. It’s dire that you open those doors to let the water floods out. Your body wasn’t meant to be a dam.
2) Talk about the problem and difficulty with someone. It could be God, to your friends, even to your family. Shoo, you could even talk to your counselor at school. For those that are religious, go pray to your God/s or Goddess/es and ask them for support and help to move on. It’s a big help, and it separates those on who are your real friends, and those that are not. If you need to speak to someone about a problem, they should take it willingly and listen, and understand your situation. At the same time, they should be fair.
It’s hard to find that, or to take criticism if it was your fault in the relationship. That often discourages people from talking to get over it. However, it shouldn’t be discouraging. It just shows more effort on whom you could trust as a friend in life. Although it is understandable to feel guilt, you have to accept yourself, for beauty and for faults, and find someone that accepts you as who you are as a friend. In this modern time and day, where people are judgmental, brash, and brutal, it’s difficult. Sometimes close people would hurt you. Yet, there will be someone to talk to. You’ll stumble on them when it’s necessary. Just trust with what you got.
“Friendship, a dear balm – whose coming is as light and music are ‘Mid dissonance and gloom. A star which moves not amid the moving heavens alone; A smile among dark frowns; beloved light. A solitude, a refuge, a delight.” (Connected Therewith, Perry B. Shelley, 1792-1822)
Write the above passage down, and take a few minutes to think about it. Think about what it means to you, and what you could do with it in your life, or what is refers to. This is just a suggestion. It has proven to help a few others who needed comfort to move on, and this may be a help. You got family, and you got friends, and you even got God/s/nesses (For those religious people) to pick you up off your broken leg.
3) This is a cruel fact that must be taken in. You can’t do anything about the fact that they are gone. The thoughts and pictures that play in your brain would be full of “I should have,” “Why didn’t I,” and a lot of “What if.” Honey, that needs to get out of your system, pronto. You need to realize it’s over and it’s done for good. You might hate it, and you might wish that you want to get back together with him or her, but just take it in that they are GONE.
You can’t go back and change anything, so you must accept the state you are in now, and work on improving it. Maybe pretending that they’re dead might help for a few of you out there. Maybe the relationship between the both of you didn’t work out because the other wasn’t good enough for you, decided to be an idiot and break up with you. Maybe you faulted and made a mistake, or didn’t work hard enough to please his or her expectations (And no, Sex should not be an expectation. Any guy or girl that wants sex is basically using you and being a moron.).
It might take a few days to recover from the blow, or even several punches over, and over again until you finally get the idea that nothing could be done at the moment. After you finally realize, comprehend, understand and take into your life that nothing between you both could be done, than maybe there’s something else that you could possibly do. That possibility is step four.
4) When you got no one, and you’re out in the blue, Work. You need to direct your passion to other ideas, similar to step one. But you have to work. You got to keep busy in order to keep your mind busy and refrain from thinking about your ex-lover. Most people often wonder their thoughts and can’t complete their job right, and their life takes a down-turn because of the depression. You have to push the negative out and take in a better quality of life.
Working could amount to helping out the community, play video games all day, work more hours at a job or career, or pursue an interest with renewed vigor. Trust me; anything would do as long as you could keep yourself busy from thinking about your ex-lover. Cleaning the house, speaking to other people and meeting new friends, for instance, are good “working” ways to push out the thought from your mind. Speak about other objects, and stop connecting one idea to an ex-lover.
You have to keep busy, you have to push yourself off from that bed or that couch with chocolate bon bons, turn off the soap opera channel, and move. Take in trust. Being a dead-beat won’t do anything for you except probably make you obese and a lazy person. It’s time to strive, time to live, and time to create an existence actually worth living for. You think that love is worth living for? It is, but read on to number five. You’d be surprise what I would have to say to this.
5) “Love is patient; love is kind and envies no one. Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude; never selfish, not quick to take offense. There is nothing love cannot face; there is no limit to its faith, its hope, and endurance .In a word, there are three things that last forever: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of them all is love.” (1 Corinthians 13:4-13)
Do not search for another lover to become a boyfriend or a girlfriend, until you’re over your ex. I bet you weren’t expecting that. Although the closest type of love between people consists of lovers, there are other types of love to take in. Of course, people tend to misuse Love for sex, among other ideas and thoughts. Love has a lower quality than it has years ago, and it’s rather saddening. Love is a great gift, and it’s not singled out by a “lover’s” relationship. Love consists in everyone.
What a lift love gives. True love holds truth, and selflessness. True friends and families consist of this truth, unwilling to lie to you and willing to compromise their own wants in order to lift up your needs. This love respects one another, and is perhaps one of the most important ones of all. We’re human and we need relationships. We need to touch, to be held and to speak to someone who would listen. We need respect as a people of this earth.
Sometimes you might not have anyone to speak to, and you’re alone on this island that no one wants to stay on. You have to remember, life isn’t all about a specific person, like your ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend. In fact, you don’t NEED a lover to be happy, and many people take that for granted. After a break up, most people would put themselves at vulnerable risk by searching out for another possible mate. Usually, that is when people start taking advantage of you and use you, trick you, and basically make your emotions and heart a mockery. It’s not worth going out right after breaking up. Give it few months.
6) “If you look too hard into yesterday, you lose tomorrow.” –Unknown.
Perhaps the most important aspect of life is trusting that tomorrow would be a better day. If you keep focusing on the past, then it would be difficult, a struggle, to move on forward ahead. It’s time to stop looking in the past and go forward it the future, thinking, dreaming and hoping for new chances, new lovers, new homes for your heart to come. Don’t search too valiantly for love, because in time, love would come to you. You have to trust the world. Even if you don’t find a new love, you have a passion with the people you come to know and your work.
Sure, the memories will come up and you would hate it. But focus on the memories that were good if that happens. If you let the bad memories come up, you’ll have regret over your past and the mourning would go for even longer. You got to focus on the good memories, about the sweetness. Sometimes you might be bitter; it’s common. Well, all the more good for you if you find more reason to move on. But it’s not reason that counts. It’s if you actually do it.
Now I’m not saying that if you follow these steps, the pain of an old lover would be forgotten. They would never be forgotten because you once loved them, and they take a place in your heart. You just got to accept the conditions life has for you now, and work around it. Life is a force, but as creatures of survival, we learn to adapt, to make use and focus on our current condition. In time, if you ride time’s wind, the pain will still be there, but it won’t hurt as much. Look forward into the next day, into how life may unfold for you and how you could unveil yourself to achieve those dreams, new or old, forgotten or dead, in the future.
You don’t life forever, so mourning forever won’t do you any good. Once you climb out of the pit, a bit of dirt might cling onto you. Yet, there is the sun in the sky that warms up your cold body, and a fresh spring to refresh yourself and to proceed ahead into the green hills that grow, just beyond the Spring horizon.
-cutecatlove
TDA