Sometimes it takes getting your feelings hurt to finally wake up and start focusing on yourself. You need to experience disappointment to realise how much of yourself you’ve been pouring into other people while neglecting your own needs. You get so caught up in loving someone, hoping things will work out and waiting for them to give you what you deserve that you forget you have a life of your own to nurture. And then something happens that forces you to see things differently. You realise you’ve been giving too much attention to people who aren’t giving you the same energy, putting your happiness in someone else’s hands and waiting to be chosen when you should have been choosing yourself all along. It hurts, but that hurt is what brings you back to yourself. It reminds you to protect your peace, pour into your own life and stop making someone else the center of a world that belongs to you. Heartbreak is the wake-up call that reminds you it’s time to stop chasing love from others and start showing up for yourself.