Cherry

“If I’m not with somebody who really excites or inspires me, then I’d rather be by myself.”

How I healed from my breakup. I look back now and I don’t know how I did it. My only advice is to make your life beautiful in your eyes. Stock your fridge with colorful fruit and spend an hour picking out flowers for yourself. Buy lace curtains and sit in the sun. Have a cup of hot tea in your underwear and just write. Write about anything. Go buy new sheets, the light pink ones with the ruffles. You deserve it. Take a shower before bed and use coconut shampoo. Laugh at how he would have hated pink sheets. This is your bed now, laugh in it and tell yourself goodnight. Spend $80 on the perfume you’ve always wanted. Throw away the others and while you’re at it go buy that little black dress. Go back to school and learn. Buy expensive books and tie your hair back with ribbons. Don’t wait for a man to buy you those diamond earrings. Work hard, get a job you love. Stock up on clean linen candles and keep one burning at night while you are reading. Read something good. I forbid you from reading romance novels. Cosmopolitan is the bible of heartbreak. Take all of the love you have for him and give it to yourself. Take care of you. One day you’ll wake up to the sun shining through your window and your hair will lay across your pink pillow case and you’ll smile. All of those days you spent crying will seem distant. You’ll be okay. I promise.