If there's one ability that I wish I could easily master, it is the ability to detach myself from people and things and just move on with my life like nothing happened. I'm talking about being able to leave a ten-year relationship without feeling terrible about the breakup because that feeling is a terrible thing.
The other day I talked about my friend whose girlfriend had woken up one morning and decided she was no longer interested in being in a relationship with him.
Well, it's been a few days now, and that friend of mine has been a mess. Last night, he had posted a WhatsApp status asking for people to come advise him before he ends up doing something he would regret. I had gone to him to try to talk to him and assure him that all it would take was time for him to go back to being himself.
But it felt like all I was saying was falling on deaf ears. Then he had gone further to tell me of his plan to move to a different state for the same breakup reason. I thought he was joking and hadn't paid much attention to it, but I had woken up this morning to news of him traveling.
It turned out he was being serious and had traveled this morning to go secure a place that he could stay in in a different state for the rest of the year. All of this simply because someone he was in love with decided to break his heart and go be with someone else.
To be honest, it is things like this that make me doubt the purpose of love because loving someone is literally making yourself vulnerable. And I don't know about you, but vulnerability isn't something I would like for myself because I hate getting hurt, and I would do everything in my power to protect myself.