Better a Bigger Bandage Than a Smaller Heart

Love isn’t always fun. Sometimes it’s painful. Sometimes you get dumped. Sometimes the person you love doesn’t love you back. Sometimes you trust your gut and then someone punches you in the stomach. Sometimes you feel like you want to throw up. Sometimes your heart breaks and then it stings and just sits there for a while, like it’s never going to heal. It might stay broken for a while. You might need to be helicoptered in for some complex surgery involving ice cream and tissue and good friends who aren’t doctors.

Just make sure that you let your heart heal. Make sure that you keep watering your inner optimist. Make sure that you get some sunshine. Make sure you notice when you’re back and ready to be happy again. Be okay with the price of the risk of love. And promise me you’ll play the game again. Because I have no doubt that one day you’ll win.