for people and things over which we have no control…
Heartbreak begins the moment we are asked to let go but cannot,
in other words, it colors and inhabits and magnifies each and every
day; heartbreak is not a visitation, but a path that human beings
follow through even the most average life. Heartbreak is an
indication of our sincerity: in a love relationship, in a life’s work, in
trying to learn a musical instrument, in the attempt to shape a
better more generous self. Heartbreak is the beautifully helpless
side of love and affection and is [an] essence and emblem of care…
Heartbreak has its own way of inhabiting time and its own
beautiful and trying patience in coming and going.
Heartbreak is how we mature; yet we use the word heartbreak as if
it only occurs when things have gone wrong: an unrequited love, a
shattered dream… But heartbreak may be the very essence of
being human, of being on the journey from here to there, and of
coming to care deeply for what we find along the way.
There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not
lead to heartbreak.
Realizing its inescapable nature, we can see heartbreak not as the
end of the road or the cessation of hope but as the close embrace
of the essence of what we have wanted or are about to lose.
Heartbreak asks us not to look for an alternative path, because
there is no alternative path. It is an introduction to what we love
and have loved, an inescapable and often beautiful question,
something and someone that has been with us all along, asking us
to be ready for the ultimate letting go.
David Whyte
art: Gustav Klimt - Woman and poppies
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