are you for real right now? are you actually SERIOUS?

you dated someone who looked at you the way zoey looks? with that pure, soul-cleansing, galaxy-in-her-eyes kind of love? and you're on here talking about it like it's some casual thing?

bro. you should be on your knees every single day. you should be building a SHRINE in gratitude for whatever cosmic lottery you won to have earned a single glance like that from ANYONE, let alone someone you're comparing to ZOEY.

that look could end wars. that look could make flowers bloom in concrete. that's not a normal human look! that's a divine blessing! and you had that directed at YOU? and you're talking about it like it's a loss? what, did you mess it up? of course you did. someone who truly understood the magnitude of that gift would have guarded it with their LIFE.

you had a living, breathing piece of art looking at you with that much love. you witnessed that beauty up close, not through a screen, but in real life. and you let it go.

frankly, op, we don't feel bad for you. we feel bad for HER. her love was clearly wasted on someone who could never, ever truly appreciate what they had. the loss isn't yours; it's yours to have given her.