We try our hardest to save ourselves from pain altogether. Because if you’re in pain, that means someone made a mistake—someone has to be wrong. Either you didn’t guard your heart, or the other guy was a jerk, or life is cruel and unyielding. And maybe life can be cruel, but we are resilient. Like how a bone grows back stronger once it’s broken, I feel stronger and better able to handle other difficult things in my life because my heart was used as a table to tap-dance on for several years.
