The aftermath

“It will break you and wreck you beyond repair.”

“It is an interminable cycle of getting your hopes up high followed by heartbreak.”

“It is hopeless and you will be tormented.”

I can go on and on about these banal things pessimistic people say. Yes, it will hurt. If it was true, it will hurt all the more. But don’t you see the sunnier side to it? It is also the most beautiful feeling. Even the most brutal storms will end, and the next morning you will wake up to dewdrops on those unturned leaves. It will feel like the screaming sun after almost half a year of piercing winter. It will give you the most comfortable warmth you’ve ever felt. It will feel like the morning light dancing its way in through the drapes and shields after the darkest of nights. All of this will happen, maybe not right away, but someday. There’s just so much of hope. And when it does, it will make you experience the deepest of joys and everything around you will bask in your ecstasy. That someone, will stitch you up and mend you- all willingly and without any hesitancy. And at some point, you will be glad that it didn’t work out in the first place and that feeling is so empowering. She will make you shed tears of joy this time, will make every second of the pain you endured so irrelevant and will erase it entirely. You will not have experienced all these new highs without surviving the lows. This is the balance of life. Trust me, love will come around and it will treat you right, and in the end, all of this will seem worth it.