Pain is something we all feel and will feel throughout our lives to varying degrees, but we cannot let it dominate or control us to the point where we shut the world out.
For the longest time, I let pain dominate me for the mistakes that I made, be it the things that I said or how I saw myself through the eyes of others. By doing so, I gave power to my regrets.
I became an empty shell of a human being with my seemingly endless pain. I put my energies into keeping an unbreakable solid facade on the outside, yet inside, my heart was like a black hole with nothing inside of it aside from a few bright sparks here and there, but it would all fade into the endless darkness of my soul.
Through heartaches and inevitable breakups with friends or romantic entanglements that we will experience in our lives, no matter how hard we will be on ourselves in the following aftermath.
No matter how hard you try to pretend that you don’t feel the pain, as you try to cover it up with a false facade, each break affects us in different ways.
Don’t make my mistakes and let them cripple you to the point where you’re paralysed by the fear of your own goddamn shadow as you throw away your potential and put aside your ability to live and feel everything this life and world of ours has to give.
Pain has to be felt, embraced, accepted, and, in many ways, loved so that you can move past it and toward a brighter…
