Heartbroken

“He is heartbroken.”

“Aren’t we all?”

These lines from “Turtles all the way down” by John Green make sense, right?

Aren’t we all heartbroken? At some point in our lives we get our hearts broken. Be it a rejection from our crush, our partner cheating on us, our friend betraying us, death of someone close to us or our own expectations failing us.  Psychology says that the psychological pain we feel from a heart break is as real as and as painful as any other physical pain. So if we feel as if someone is putting a knife through our heart then we are actually feeling that pain. When we say “heartbroken”, it actually reflects that pain of living with something shattered within us.

Haven’t we all been there? Aren’t we dealing with one right now? We all are dealing with our heart breaks in different ways. Some are doing better and some are still stuck in the loop of pain.  What is the point of this? If heart break is law of nature then why do we still dream? Why do we trust people and why do we love with all our senses?

The reason is simple..... We can deal with it. We can deal with our broken hearts; we can pick up the pieces and mend them back again. We all have that strength. And love, expectations and dreams are inevitable. We can live with a broken heart but we simply cannot survive without dreams, love and purpose in our lives. Our minds always have faith in love, in dreams and in people. It is human nature to find love, to chase dreams and to think about happily ever after. That is the reason fairy tales exist, that is the reason hero always wins his love at the end of the movie.

Real life cannot be as simple as a fairy tale and at the same time it cannot be as shitty as a fairy tale. We cannot get a prince just by sleeping, kissing a frog will not give us anything but disease, there are no flying carpets and magic lamps. At the same time no one is going to poison us, no one is forcing us to live in attic, there is no beast willing to capture us and we can live outside water. The point is we are in a circumstance we can survive in. And this is our own tale! In this tale, we face heartbreaks and we survive them, we deal with our pain with a smile and we walk tall, always! That is life and that is how we can live it!