Why All Hearts Are Broken

I want to tell you three little secrets about life. We all have broken hearts. Like mine, your heart has been broken many times. When you were born, when you fell in love for the first time, when you lost someone you loved. Your heart broke and broke and broke again. Yet. You’re not the only one, are you? I know many people who live as if they were, though: who think their hearts are broken, and everyone’s else’s aren’t. It defines their approach to life, relationships, work, everything. It suffocates them emotionally—it makes them anxious, needy, self-sabotaging, cruel — because it’s not true.