What does a heartbreak teach us?
Merriam Webster’s dictionary defines heart break as “a crushing grief, anguish or distress”. So clearly this is something awful and can have a wide connotation which doesn’t only include romantic love. It can be on a death of a pet, a loss of a friend or any form of betrayal too, right? (In this article, we will look at it from the perspective of a person leaving, though you can suit your taste) and this form of agony, is supposed to be the best teacher as per some world renowned nobody, because it changed so many lives, it brought people to some ‘a-haa’ moment of enlightenment, taught things which apparently books don’t cover and became a multi-million dollar product to sell by self help writers. So yeah, it apparently does teach us something, but what really? In this moment of anguish, when all the ‘what ifs’ and exaggerated multicolour dream sequences of memories, go on a loop in your head, and at the same time you are in the constant self-doubt spiral, what is this ‘a-haa’ mo...