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Updated 7 months ago,September 20, 2024
Take a deep breath.
bring up the door to the bar.
give a shot to enjoy yourself anyway.

Good Faces
Chug the rest of your Two Hearted and ask for the check.
Pay your own tab and thank him for his time before giving him a hug goodbye.
Walk to your car alone and put your head on the steering wheel and cry.

Blast Broken Clocks by SZA on the way back to your apartment and think about your own bad timing.
Start to question whether this is really the only way to meet someone new.
Pray to God that its not.
Go to sleep and dream about the one who broke your heart.
Wake up more tired than before.
Barrel through your workday.
Spend time alone; spend alotof time alone.
Stop going out on Friday nights and take longer than usual to text your friends back.
Forget who you are.
Wish you were someone else.
Decide you hate him.
Know you are lying to yourself but continue to lie anyway.
Let him inspire the greatest rage youve ever felt.
Figure out how to live with it.
Give yourself a chance.
Try Bumble while youre at it.
Remember that a broken heart is a sign you tried.
Allow room for loneliness.
Learn to sincerely enjoy your own company.
Contemplate where love goes when it leaves.
Wonder if maybe it will always exist, even if its not here right now.
Have faith youll cross paths with it again.
Open your heart back up.
Remember how he encouraged you to stand taller, not slump so much.
Smile as you remember the goofy night when you snuck the Fireball shooters into the movies.
Remember how he fell asleep.
Be grateful he happened.
Be glad you two collided once.
Understand that time itself doesnt heal, but what we do within the passing hours does.
Believe a different kind of love exists than the ones you experienced before.
Accept that some love stories end but you might still reference its pages.
you’re free to still appreciate it for what it was, when it was.
Take a deep breath.
bring up the door to the bar.
Walk straight to the guy with shaggy hair and take a seat.
Stay for four hours laughing until your stomach hurts.
Realize this is how it starts.
Feel faith that it will.