Dear heartbrokengurl:

Starting over implies there is the beginning of a relationship and the end: marriage, children and they lived happily-ever-after.

I claim not only isn’t this beginning-end the normal, but it never happens. Not even once in the whole wide world. Not even once. Can it be? All those books with “and they lived happily after”- and it NEVER happens?

Never, I says.

In two hours I will go to bed and sleep sometime later. In the morning, if I am alive, I will start over another day. One day, one night at a time. We have nothing but this moment, maybe the next, and we all start over and over and over and over again…

Focus on the moment, focus on the life you have, learn all you can, be curious, be engaged. Don’t use life as a means to an end that, I say, never happens.

anita