Be thankful for the way they challenged you and

calmed you and made you believe in the person you

were becoming.

Be thankful for the fact that they saw you in ways you
didn’t see yourself.

Be thankful for the fact that you risked for love, that
you unhinged your rib cage and opened yourself up
in a world that sometimes favors playing it cool over
leaping towards connection.

Be thankful that you found this person, in a world of

billions, and for a moment in time, even if it was fleet-
ing, you got to dive into the soul of them.

Just be thankful and walk away with grace. Walk

away with gratitude. Walk away knowing that you felt
something, that you experienced something a lot of
people haven’t, and in that way — you were changed.
Love is not meant to be possessed. It is meant to be
felt. Be proud of yourself for feeling so deeply, appre-
ciate it for what it was, and let that love go off into
the world and change others the way it changed you.

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