Assume it didnt work out because you were maybe too available.

Spend time alone; spenda lotof time alone.

Reassure them youre fine, even though youre lying.

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Ksenia Kartasheva

Show a brave face at happy hour.

Put on a convincing performance of a woman who doesnt want anyone who doesnt want her.

Almost believe it yourself for a second.

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Wish you never met him.

Regret telling him the things you told him because he didnt deserve to know those pieces of you.

Consider this a metaphor for how he felt about you.

Allow time to pass.

Forget to think about him one morning and slowly find your footing.

Feel the ground at your feet.

Accept that your stars were misaligned.

Give up on trying to rearrange them and step into this universe instead.

Stop romanticizing alternate timelines.

Forget the signs that something could happen one day.

Stop asking what if?

and start calling it like it is, not what it could have been.

Stop wishing the two of you were something that you werent.

Consider that maybe its not about what you did wrong but about who you both are.

Realize youre too clumsy to be the woman who doesnt want the people who dont want her.