🔵 By Charles Mason Monroe. Photo by lauragrafie.
PROMPT:
– Write about your greatest heartbreak.
– What did you learn from it?
– How did you take that into your next relationship?
– Who was at fault, if anybody?
– What about it hurt the most?
1. The Truth Is,
My Greatest Heartbreak Is The One Which Comes Next.
Of Course,
Along The Course Of Our Journeys Most Of Us Embrace Connections With The Perspective That They Only Play Out In The Ways We Expect.
Then Comes The Noise Of Some Incoming Train,
‚All ABOARD!‘
Promising Tidings Of Both Heartbreak And Pain.
Now Granted,
One Cannot Be Forced On This Train,
One May Learn To Adopt,
And Clear Out From Its Lanes.
One Who Learns From Mistakes May Also Learn From Their Blessings,
Knowing Through Their Faith These Things Are AllFather’s Testings.
What Have I Learned You Ask, From This Next Heartbreak Of Mine
Which Still Lurks Somewhere Out There In The Sands Of The Times,
I Have Learned That True Love Is A Kingdom Upon ItSelf,
That True Love Does Not Break Things
True Love Only Melts,
All The Callousness And Hardness Of Anything Not Of ItSelf
Remolds It And Sculpts It Until There Is Nothing Else,
But True Love…
2. If There Was One Thing Jimmy Shambles Knew, It Was That He Would Not Live This Live In Fear Of Any Heartbreak.
Looking To Complete An Assignment Assigned Him By Some Seemingly Goodhearted Yet Suspiciously Mysterious Woman In An Entirely Other Country,
Jimmy Mused In His Thoughts Regarding The Reasoning Behind What He’d Been Writing.
For One,
Continuously Allowing His Heart To Vibrate Fear Towards A Thing That He Had Some,
Yet Only Limited Control Of,
Would Do Him No Good.
Instead,
His Focus And Intent Would Be Aimed Upon These Three Things:
The First Would Be His Own Mindfulness To Both Honor And Respect His Partner, His Woman, The Love Of His Life And Then Some.
In This Way And With A Faithful Commitment, The Seeds Of The Fullness Of Their Potential May Be Constantly Watered With The Waters Of Honesty, Patience, And Understanding,
Drastically Minimizing The Chances That He’d Somehow Mess Things Up For Himself In Any Way, And Become Her Own Version Of Some Incoming Train Of Heartbreak.
Secondly,
The Strength Of His And His Partner’s Relationship Would Be The Foundation,
A Foundation Built Upon Sturdy And Strong Things,
Things Which He Had Learned Must Be Strong In Having Before Dealt With The Pains Of Heartbreak.
What Had Hurt The Most About His Last Heartbreak, – His Last Two Heartbreaks, In Fact – Is That He’d Been Completely Blindsided By Them.
One Partner Had Been Drawn To SomeOne Else,
And The Other Had Simply And Apparently Been No Longer Drawn To Him.
Touche.
Yet What This Had Taught Him To Bring Into Any Relationships Which Had Followed His Last Were The Things Which Come From Paying Attention.
He Could Have Easily Declared Both Of His Former Heartbreak’s SomeOne Else’s Fault,
Yet In Paying Attention It’s Important To Also And Always Acknowledge Which Things Were One’s Own Fault,
Because These Are The Things Which One May In Fact Control.
And When Attending To What He Could Control, But In The Best Ways That He Could,
Then He Knew The Fire Of Love Would Always Be Lit And Burning Bright In His Current Relationship,
And That The Likelihood That Neither Him Nor His Partner Would Ever Betray Nor Have Any Ill Towards One Another Would Mean That If Some Coming Train Of Heartbreak Were To Ever Arrive At The Station In Which He Traveled,
It Would Be Because Of Something Beyond His Own Control.
Thus,
The Third And Final Thing Would Be Precisely Not To Fear What He Could Not Control.
For Some Heartbreak Wouldn’t Ever Come At All,
And They’d Achieve Their Own Happily Ever After.
For Others,
Their Relationship May Be Both Alive And Thriving And Then Something Sudden As A Drunk Driver Or A Deranged Crook Would Be The Author If Their Heartbreak By Taking One Of Them Away So Prematurely It Would Seem.
Yet For Jimmy He Had Faith In Things,
Things Both Deep And Profound And Metaphysical Which Allowed Him Understanding That The Human Will Control What Is Within The Power Of The Human Will,
And The Divine Will Co-Create And Co-Design The Rest.
Thus,
What Would Happen, Would Only Happen For A Purpose,
And What Would Not Happen,
Would Only Not Happen For A Purpose.
For Jimmy These Things Were Of No Concern,
Because What Was In His Control Would Be Controlled With Love And Sincerity And Commitment And Light.
Perhaps The Next Heartbreak Would Not Arrive For Jimmy.
Still,
It Is His Greatest,
Because The Woman He Was Now With Was One He Considered His SoulMate,
And If There Were Ever Any Heartbreak Involving Her Then It Would Outweigh Anything He’d Ever Felt Simply Because His Own Live For Her Outweighed Anything He’d Ever Felt.
And So Jimmy Summed Up His Assignment With The Luminous Light Of Optimism Stating That ‚The Mind Can Calculate, But The Spirit Yearns, And The Heart Knows What It Knows‘.
And What Did His Heart Know.?
Well,
He Knew That He Wouldn’t Stress Over The Things He Didn’t Know,
But Rather That He’d Focus On The One Thing He Did.
His Lover Would Have His Love For The Rest Of This Life And For The Sum Of Any Other.
He Believed That He Would Also Have Hers In The Same Sort Of Manner,
And So Well,
Anything That Was Not Forever And Ever Amen Between The Two Of That Was Of A Deeper And Guided Inner Working And Was Beyond The Jurisdiction Of Some Incoming Train Or Any Other Earthly Thing.
And That’s All Jimmy Shambles Had To Say About That,
And That Was Good Enough For Him.
The End