Romantic heartbreak gets all the attention.
All the podcasts, blogs, and books talk about it—how to get over it, how to deal with it, whatever.
But there’s an elephant in the room that we don’t talk about enough. A big, painful, horrible elephant that often gets overlooked.
And that’s friendship heartbreak.
Dare I say romantic heartbreak is… easy? It’s not. But it is manageable. Block, ignore, distract, rinse, and repeat.
Friendship heartbreak? Unavoidable. A true mourning. It comes in waves. You look at your favorites in your phone or find their stuff in your car. The list goes on.
Like tiny relics they’ve left behind to remind you of the love you once shared. Or maybe didn’t share. Or maybe thought you shared. Unsure.
Although painful and wretched, it is necessary. This is a part of life. The pecking order of things.
Like they say, nothing lasts forever. And in your 20s, that’s particularly true.
Your 20s are somewhat of this horrible, sadistic, and beautiful process of shedding and molting, shedding and molting, rinse, repeat.
Keep rinsing, repeating, and so on and so forth. Because I promise, the more times you shed your layers, the more you meet yourself.