#243
Our heart breaks when the trust we have established with someone gets broken.
You know the saying “water under the bridge”?
The trust we establish with someone is a bridge that helps us meet in the middle.
Our trust gets betrayed when we find ourselves standing alone in the middle while the other person remains at their end of the bridge – whether accidentally distracted or intentionally unbothered.
And when the bridge starts collapsing, because the other person is not coming to meet us in the middle anymore, we fall into the waters.
And here’s the thing – we’re all excellent swimmers when it comes to these waters for they represent the ocean of our emotions.
But once we’ve experienced “the fall”, something inside of us changes. We are no longer the same person that was watching the waters from above, nor the person that spent however long it took for the swim back to the shore.
And this is all part of the experience of being human!
To choose to experience the full spectrum of love is to discover that the water’s there to catch us when we fall, to remind us of the universal flow that keeps things in motion at all times.
Our heartbreaks, in other words, teach us how to expand our ability to love. To trust in our ability to both build new bridges (new connections) and to recover from the (trust) falls.
