6 Feet Apart

Brenda Priddy once said, ~Hundreds of things are far worse than heartbreak. Yet the loss one feels often leaves one with the sense of failure and isolation.~ If you think about it, when a person experiences the "symptoms" of utter heartbreak he/she in a sense has a tendency to lock himself/herself in a sort of self isolation of one's own thoughts, feelings, and/or emotions. Days, weeks, months, and/or years is the length of time the broken hearted can spend away from themselves even though they can be around countless individuals. For it can most definitely be a tortuous situation indeed in wanting to more so mentally and emotionally than physically distance ourselves from contaminating others with our personal inner turmoil than can turn absolutely infectious so much so the amount of pain endured can push one's sanity to/past its breaking point.

Without a doubt, when someone goes through a break up the individual just wants to be left alone in order to deal with the initial surface systems such worry, doubt, anger, sadness, depression, loneliness, disappointment, stress, anxiety, embarrassment, frustration, etc. Thinking about it further, it's those aforementioned surface symptoms that you try to avoid facing in silence, so to speak, but will inevitably hit you one by one or all at once to the point where the noise in your heart is deafening. Essentially, when given time to process the particular ailments you're suffering through it can in some ways be best described as trying to flush out the nagging negativity of the mind, dealing with the haunting physical ailments relating to relationships past, and the lingering scratch that's at times hard to reach located deep within the soul of one's heart.

As I said before, the broken-hearted can spend days, weeks, months, and/or years away from themselves even though they can be around countless individuals. I think it's safe to say there are those who are living the single life that have been isolated within themselves for so long due to suffering countless heartbreaks that it's incredibly difficult for all intents and purposes to take the initial first step out from the safety of their protective bubble. Why? The fear of getting infected again in a more positive than negative way and not emotionally shutting yourself down when the possibility of true happiness happens. Oftentimes, being emotionally detached and distant from having or dealing with the disease of unresolved feelings/issues can certainly be deemed as a sign of unwavering strength, which is a mentality that a number of hardened/jaded people share.

Let me ask this question to those who have experienced or are experiencing the pangs of self isolation in regards to having your heart broken, what is considered to be one of the drawbacks or should I say annoyances of social distancing yourself from love/true love? For the most part, the constant encouragement by one's best buds/gal pals who even though seem to be overly optimistic in an annoying way of one's chances in someday finding/meeting your best friend for life. On the other hand, getting annoyed when you try to encourage yourself only further but failing to do so thus spreading the disease of self sabotage to where it further isolates you deeper into the dark abyss of one's own fragile sanity. What it primarily comes down to is not allowing yourself to completely slip into the madness that is being in a relationship to where you've mentally snapped from the lack of faith of hope.

In retrospect, every person has endured and not to mention lived through the pandemic that is having your heart broken and unfortunately it's a never-ending cycle that will outlive us all. It's a sad state of affairs knowing that not everybody will make it alive, in a manner of speaking, as they'll continue to isolate themselves despite the potential opportunity presenting itself to take the risk in being touched in their heart or touching the heart of someone you're interested in. Hey, its all about not making things even more complicated than it already is for yourself pertaining to dealing with the way you think, feel, and/or act with the guy/girl in question. In the end, you just have to answer the question of whether or not the risk is worth taking in the form of a guy or girl who you'd gladly stand together hand in hand with instead of 6 feet apart.