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What do you do with the pieces of a broken heart?

Crush them up and let the wind carry them away, never to be seen again?

Keep them in a little locked box, up in the top of the closet - out of sight out of mind?

Put them in a padded envelope and mail them to the one who broke it to pieces?

Leave them there, on the floor, to rot where they landed the day everything was broken and you couldn't fix it...

Does it even really matter...
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You know, i think on this a lot: the nature of ones heart, life, experience and purpose of this meagre existence.

And one thing that helps me is to try and see my 'self' from a deeper/broader perspective.

Not that im religious, far from it: But consciousness and the concept of its possible eternity.
So i suppose what im trying to say is, my broken heart from this 'life', is but a tiny segment of what i truly might be. It helps minimise the pain of it.

We are heart, body, and mind. The body will die, the heart will stop, but i believe consciousness will go on .

And if it does, then i imagine there are deeper more meaningful things to seek than trying to mend a broken heart.
Like, why cry about spilt milk, when there is wine.

Im not saying its a cure, or that ive succeed. But its made me search for something deeper that hopefully means more.

Im not sure if this makes sense at all. But i do know, trying to find peace, realising this life may be but a small part of what i am, helps put heartbreak into a more digestible experience.

It still hurts, it still makes me angry, it still parylises my thoughts sometimes.
But i wonder if its something im supoosed to learn.
I mean, how can i be whole, if im still hanging on to a broken heart?

Maybe love is more than that, bigger than just two people ?

For now, i just try to love the small things ....sunshine, breath, food, the fact i can walk ,talk and think .

I mean, it could be worse, i may have never learned how beautiful love was in the first place .
At least when i die, i know what it is to be so deeply and satisfyingly in love.

Yes, the loss of it hurts, ( and sometimes crushingly so). But you know , id take that over never knowing how beautiful it can be.💜
LadyBronte · 56-60, F
@OogieBoogie Thank you. I have to agree with most everything. You do ha e to look beyond yourself. But, I would, it I could, never have loved at all. The knowing makes it worse. The wondering, yet never realizing what is missing in life, seems it would be infinitely easier to look upon life with joy and to remain positive...to dream of what was to come.
@LadyBronte ahh yes.
The idea that ignorance is bliss.

I have pondered this myself.

Yet i look at people on here, and their 'wanting' in life , of love, connection and bonding with a partner . It seems to be a falibility of human nature .

Not saying it isnt lovely, and a worthy goal. I just wonder if its just part of all that we are.
If i had never lost
LadyBronte · 56-60, F
@OogieBoogie Two schools of thought. Something for everyone so to speak. Ww all choose what makes srnse to our situations and our journey.