For all the broken-hearted souls out there...

True love exists. You just have to open your heart and let people in. People may have the potential to break your heart and leave a permanent scar on your life, but more often than not, they also have the potential to love and cherish you in ways you never thought were possible. When it comes to love, you gotta take a leap of faith. Believe in the quintessential beauty that lies within you and know that you deserve to be loved truly, madly, deeply. Believe in your very own ability to shower somebody with love. Believe in the ultimate power and joy that ensue when true love takes place.

Don't keep the pain. Forgive yourself and others. Try not to look back at the things that make your heart ache. Don't recall those moments that almost kill you inside. Things happened. People made mistakes. So did you. But at the end of the day, the most important lesson you need to learn is to not punish yourself for the things that happened, for the pain that you inflicted on others, or for the permanent cuts that others left on you. As hard as it is to regain the strength and the faith, do all that you can to win yourself back. Love yourself enough to let go of the past. Focus on the power of now and the promising future that awaits you. You only have one life to live, so live it fully and truly. Don't live it in fears, and don't ever compromise when it comes to your very own happiness.

Keep moving forward until you see the light at the end of the tunnel. If you have not seen the light, you have not reached the end yet, so keep going! Don't give up on love, and most importantly, don't give up on yourself because if you do, nobody will ever fight for you.

Emotional healing

There is still that sense of longing in me, that hopeless search for the comfort and stability that I’ve grown so accustomed to these past few years, that desire to be someone else’s “one and only”, that journey to find happiness and true love. Sometimes I feel as bereft as an abandoned newborn baby on a remote island. I know that I need to love myself first and many times over again. I need to accept the fact that this is just another rough patch in life, that eventually time will heal. Time won’t make me whole ever again, but it will make me better, stronger, deeper (so I hope!). I can’t say that I’ve gone through this road many times, but yes, I have definitely been there. I just hope that this time I know how to love myself enough to not hold on to the pain and torture my mind, heart, and soul for not fighting hard enough. How hard is enough?

I am surrounded by an overwhelming amount of love and support these days from my family and dear friends, the ones who know me well enough to understand that behind the cold, strong, brave front that I am putting forth, I am dying slowly inside... but I am going to box up all of these pessimistic thoughts and negative energy and ship them to Neverland.

I(t) will get better.