I guess whenever love is involved, we are never really ready to say goodbye.
We are never really prepared for endings, or for the heartache or grief that follows.
We are never ready to walk the world without them, without their support or their love pushing forward.
Ivan Oboleninov
We arent ready to be alone.
All we can think about is what we are missing.
But the truth is, we arent defined by our losses.
We arent defined by who left us or who we lost.
We arent defined by the reasons someone had for leaving us, or by the reasons we never heard.
We arent defined by the grief we carry with us, long after our person leaves us.
We arent defined by our losses.
But we cant let ourselves be defined by our grief.
We cant let ourselves be defined by our heartbreaks.
We can miss them, but we cant lose ourselves when we lose them.
We can miss them, but we cant let our lives be over once they are gone.
Because we still have our lives to live.
We still have mountains to move and tides to turn.
We still have others to love.
And we still have so much love to give.
We arent defined by our losses.
But we are defined by how we choose to continue to live after they are gone.
We are defined by how we let their loss impact us, how we let it shape us.
We loved, and we lost.
And our hearts are bigger for it.
Weve lost a piece of ourselves.
Weve lost a world.
But we havent lost the whole world.
We still have our hearts to share.
And we still have such a capacity for love.
We cant let it stop us from loving.
They taught us how strong our hearts could be.
So while we cant let our grief define us forever, we can use it to love bigger.
And we can use it to love stronger.
