Break the cycle

You’ve heard this: Hurt people hurt people. It is your choice whether to break that cycle. Suffering is optional. If someone has hurt you, the wound in your heart will hurt like hell when you address it, but only for a little while, until you let it go. Then it can heal. And scar tissue tends to be much stronger than the original flesh. But an untended wound will fester and infect every aspect of your life. It can do this without you being consciously aware of it. You will then become the hurt person who hurts people. So let it go. Identify it, feel it, then let it go. Whatever it was, whatever that cruel person did, has nothing to do with you, with anything you do or did. You were just close at hand, is all. If the person who hurt you had had someone else close at hand—someone not you—he would have done exactly the same thing. Because the thing that caused him to hurt you was not you. It was his own hurt. How you respond to it is entirely up to you. As soon as you know this in your heart—for real and not just as something you want to believe—you can let go. There are lots of professionals who can help you do this, along with family and friends you trust. But you can also do it by yourself. Yes, you are enough.

Loneliness is thirsty out at sea

And watching silent teardrops as they sink

With water for as far as eyes can see

But not a single drop that you can drink

Happiness is standing in the sun

With every new day drinking in the dew

And feeling as though life has just begun

And every single moment is for you