breakups

When it comes to breakups, pain is inevitable, but Humans thinks that suffering is optional.

The Sunflowers
When sunflowers are young, they face east to watch the sunrise. Craning their vibrant green necks, they raise their golden faces to the sun and faithfully follow its rays to the west. In darkness, they slowly turn their faces back to the east, and at dawn's first light they prepare to repeat their daily ritual.
By Nicole Mak8 years ago in Humans
This'll Make Your Heart Ache
Never I winced as I felt my stomach continually knotting up. Beads of sweat began to roll down the sides of my face as my heart started accelerating. My eyes welled with tears and it felt like a boulder was placed in my throat. My every nerve was on fire. I sunk down and pulled my knees to my chest behind the big staircase leading to the second floor of the 400 building and watched you walk by with her. The gut wrenching pain of watching you with her was unbearable. You smiled at her with your handsome smile and your heart shining through your eyes. You held her hand like your life depended on it. You tucked her hair behind her ear like she was made of the most precious substance in the universe. You kept her behind you to make sure nothing could ever hurt the most precious thing in your life. She smiled back with her million watt smile that made everyone stop and stare. She held your hand with ease because it fit like a glove. She giggled as you tucked her hair behind her ear and she sounded like an angel. She happily walked along behind you knowing you’d do absolutely anything for her. It killed me. It completely slaughtered my soul. Knowing that I could never make you as happy as she does. Knowing that I once had you and, somehow, I lost you. Knowing I will never have with you what you have with her. Knowing you will never look at me the way you now look at her. Knowing you never cared about me the way you care about her, and you never will. Knowing that no matter how many times you assured me that you would be there, you lied. Every promise you made. Every small action that expressed your affection. Every time you hugged me. Every time you kissed me. Every time you looked into my eyes and said you’d never felt this way about anyone before. Every time you said you loved me…every time said you loved me. It was all a lie. I should be used to it by now. Everybody lies. Nobody truly cares. Even when they say they do, they really don’t. Normally, I don’t let these things affect me like this. I had learned to shut my emotions off, keep people out. I had perfected my numbing process. But you broke down my walls, and I let you. I stopped rebuilding them. I trusted you. And you shattered me. I gave you all of me. I gave you the one thing I held close to me, the one thing I swore I would never give anyone, the one thing that truly gave me value. I gave you all of my heart. I gave you all of my happiness. For a while, it worked. I guess it wasn’t enough. I’m never enough.
By Brittany Fromlath8 years ago in Humans
Heart Broken
They say loving someone who does not love you back is like hanging on to a burning rope while your body is engulfed in flames and you just hang on to dear life burning alive. We are too scared to let go, strong enough to hold on, but not strong enough to realize when it's time to let go. Okay, maybe I say that because, in reality, that's how it feels.
By Grace8 years ago in Humans
Second Love Gone Wrong
Since my last breakup post was popular, I will do another. This breakup story is going to be about my second boyfriend. I'm skipping my first boyfriend because not too much happened. My second boyfriend and I were extremely close. I would like to think he was most likely my first love. The only downfall about the relationship was that him and I lived an hour apart. I was only 15 when we started dating, so I wasn't able to drive yet. When we started dating, he was 17, so he was able to drive and that's how it all worked out. We dated for almost two years before I ended the relationship.
By Alyssa Smith8 years ago in Humans
The One I Lost
This one's about the love I lost. We all have dated that one person that we instantly think is our person and we fall head over heels for them. Well I found mine then lost it. I met this guy when I least expected it, I also never thought it would happen. Now that I realise it, it was that summer romance. One night my friend said to me, "Hey you do you want to come with me, I'm going to pick up my friend?" I thought why not because, well, I had nothing better to do. We drove for about 40 minutes, we stopped to get food for him because it was his birthday coming up. When we got there, my friend parked the car and we waited; it was night time and incredibly dark. I sat in the passenger seat my friend sat in the driver seat. She started texting him back and forth saying we were there. He was hanging out with his friends smoking a cigarette.
By Alyssa Smith8 years ago in Humans
First Love
I fell in love when I was 17, my first year of college, drunk off the freedom my new environment gave me. I had never dated before, never had anyone tell me they liked me.
By Genevieve Wren8 years ago in Humans
High School Relationships: Cheating
I wonder why people do the things they do sometimes, and what motivates them to do it. Specifically, cheating. I, yes, may be young. I am a teenage girl who attends high school as a junior. I have had my fair share of teenage heartbreak and realized it was never a real relationship nor was it as serious to the other person as it was to me.
By Mya8 years ago in Humans
Learn How to Love Losing
Back in June, I started talking with this girl over Instagram. I messaged her after she requested to follow me, and it took her two weeks to finally reply. When she did, I didn’t even know who she was, and I even forgot that I messaged her because my mind was in high school and graduation. When she did though, we kept talking, and her response times would shorten down from a day, to a couple of hours, to an hour, to a couple of minutes, and finally an instant reply. We talked over Instagram direct messages for a good month.
By Jorge Valenzuela8 years ago in Humans
The Last Letter...
To the guy I tackled, You may never get to read this, but I hope one day you do. I just wanted to tell you that you've been everything to me. My king, my love, my home, my best friend. And you've given me so many adventures in the last three years. We've been through hell and back, and you taught me so much.
By Johnae Rose8 years ago in Humans
Lost
Never Again I was so happy. It felt like life was finally perfect. We went through so many rough patches, but I finally figured out what had been going wrong, and I fixed it. Then, I found out that it was too late. He had given up on me. I had pushed him away one too many times and now he was not coming back. Some say I am too young to know what love is, but with the amount of emotional pain I have been going through since March fourth, I would say I know it pretty well.
By Brittany Fromlath8 years ago in Humans
The Bed
She sat on her porch, listening to the sounds of downtown Vancouver; raindrops pouring, cars in heavy traffic on Highway 1, and homeless people yelling at each other for more heroin. By now, Fatima got used to these sounds alone.
By Faith Joy8 years ago in Humans
Painfully Beautiful Romance
The feeling of drowning, suffocating, the weight on your chest like 100 bricks were just being piled on top of you. Do you feel it? Your body begging for more air, knowing you can, but for some reason, you can't. Can you feel the tears running down your cheeks? Can you breathe? Are you okay? You can feel the pain, can't you? Are you the only person in the room who is feeling this pain? Is everyone else smiling? Answer a question for me. Are you the only one feeling this pain?Breathe. Breathe. Don't stop breathing. Don't breathe too fast. Calm down. It's okay. Breathe. . . Are you okay?
By Caroline Urbina8 years ago in Humans