Perhaps you’re in pain because the one you love doesn’t love you back. But look at all you’ve gained. By simply being in and of this world, that person opened doors in you of feeling. You were silly. You were brave. You moved with your heart instead of your head, but made more of a splash in doing so than any logic would have allowed. You dared to push the walls of reason to the brink, and in doing so opened up a whole new space inside. It hurts, but there is a kind of beauty in the pain because it reminds you of how deep your being goes. How deeply you can love. You still carry hope, because hope is the very air you breathe. But that hope now looks like a sun ray shaped in a question mark. There is still light ahead but not knowing what form it will take. You created something beautiful and absurd that ignored rules, sending off its ramifications in all directions with laughter and wonder heard in the distance. The heart knows what the heart knows. But, maybe the soul knows what the soul knows. Because although your heart is broken, something deeper in you is giving its approval. Even though you don’t know why it all came to be, you accepted the gauntlet laid down before you. Oh, it can’t be me. I’m too old. I’m too young. I’m too fat. I’m too dumb. You bravely moved past all your doubts and dared to love. And, something is applauding you now from a safe, sacred place separate from the pain. Something is gained in what looks like loss. You’re changed. Something subtle in that energy of what makes you *you*. You’ve gained some invisible tools, but the results of those tools will be become very visible in the soon-to-be future. The way you carry yourself. The way you are gentle with the pain of others. The way you understand. That feeling of being in love. That feeling of bottoms falling out of floors over and over and over again upon the sight of that person had a purpose. Removing all those floors created depth. You’ll always adore that special one, but you can adore yourself, too. You’re a manifestor. You make magic. Look what you can create with your power! The sun doesn’t worry if the flower loves it back. It just sheds its light. And, now you can shine it all over. And, you’ve got so, so, *SO!* much light to give! And, there it is: underneath the aching, a feeling of being carried. Your soul whispering, “I’ve saved something very special for you. What fun would it be without some mystery?” And, you’re closer to it because you dared to love. You followed a path where there had been no path before it. There are no winners. No losers. No victims. You’re in a dance with the divine. And because you chose to love, and choose to love, love will come back to you. Like the bodies in the heavens, it travels in a circle. And you are embraced from all sides. I love you. ❤️