Don’t know what to do?
Right now,
you are staring
at the window
with a deep sense of emptiness
Your ears can’t believe what you have been told
what you love was right in front of you yesterday
and now it’s gone
A flood of negative thoughts start racing
“Have I lost my love permanently?”
Worst is
Everyone is telling you to move on
So fast?
How dare they?
Isn’t there any hope?
As you take your steps
slowly and sadly out of the place
You can feel everyone’s eyes on you
There are some hushed whispers
You are sure it is about you
“This world is so cruel”
First, they separate you from your love
and now they make fun of you
You don’t know what to do
“Maybe I should do all those wild things
which my friends do
in such situations?
To wash away the pain
I need to distract myself!”
You convince yourself
You need a distraction
to take your mind away from this loss
It feels like the world is spinning away from you
You feel out of control
You feel like running away from it all
Running away
and distracting oneself
is like running away
from your shadow
It’s not going to help!
Your sense of identity
Your self worth
Your self-esteem
Your sense of who you are and why you exist
cannot be tied to something external
If we do it
we become like a rudderless ship
because the external world will change
that is the nature of the material world
“You can’t stop the waves,
but you can learn to swim”
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Objects, people, relationships
everything changes
For what you have inside
is far more powerful
than what is outside
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Ask yourself
What resources will you access today to come out of this situation?