When Life Renders You Powerless, Challenge Yourself to Do This
Warning: No one said it would be easy. But it is possible with time.
If I’ve learned anything in the past year, it’s that whether we like it or not, a lot of life is out of our control.
We can make plans, we can say vows, we can dream up an amazing future that genuinely makes us giddy inside—and then the unexpected can happen.
Someone can change their mind, or reveal a side to themselves that you don’t recognize, and in the blink of an eye, your whole world can come crashing down all around you. All those plans and dreams and visions of a happy future or a life lived with that one person you thought was “the one” can become obsolete faster than you ever thought possible.
It’s an experience so confusing and so jarring that I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. It can leave you feeling like nothing was ever real, like the last seven years of your life were all a lie, a joke. A very, very bad joke at that.
The pain you feel when someone you love leaves you is excruciating.
If you’ve ever had your heart broken, you’re probably intimately aware of what that feels like.
