Had a heartbreak? Here’s what you need to learn from it

Heartbreak can be painful. It isn’t just plain emotional pain. Heartbreak comes with a lot of physical pain too. It hurts like hell and feels like the world is closing in on you. Your chest feels constricted and the tears don’t stop. It feels like the pain will kill you and the tears will dehydrate you. It’s just so unbearable but you have no way out or around it. This is the kind of pain that cannot be avoided. You cannot run away from heartbreak. It’s something that you just have to go through at least once in a lifetime. Love comes at the cost of heartbreak. Heartbreak is an important life lesson. It doesn’t just have to be a painful experience. It can be something you learn from and understand love more. Here are a few lessons heartbreak teaches you in its course.

1. You learn that there is more to life than just having a partner. You find yourself in your heartbreak. You learn to love yourself. You go on a journey of self-discovery after a heartbreak.

2. You understand love. You learn to accept that maybe it wasn’t true love. You understand what true love is and more importantly, you understand what love does not feel like.

3. You learn to not depend on one person. Nothing is permanent in life and it doesn’t always last forever. Every person is not in your life to stay.

4. You eventually, through pain, learn to let go. You cannot hold onto the past and move forward. Your life is much more than just a relationship or a person.

5. Love can sometimes bring out the worst in people and it makes them do things you could never imagine.

6. You learn to accept your shortcomings and understand how relationships work. You understand love and relationships better. You learn how to maintain a relationship.

7. You understand the pain and let yourself go through the process. You understand that life isn’t fair and everything doesn’t always go your way.

8. You learn how to let yourself heal. You learn to forgive, forget and move on in life.