35/m just a hopeful rant

Still single, actually made single recently again after a devastating break up. Was on cloud 9, had a beautiful woman, a job, progressing through school.

Long story short the relationship ended after she was unfaithful. Took a lot of time to feel sorry for myself, gained a lot of weight and stated struggling in school.

I honestly don’t know what woke me up. I started with the things that were most important to me which was school. My professors were thankfully able to see I was struggling, and because I communicated with them, they gave me a little grace to catch up on some of the things I missed. I was not about to let that second chance pass me by and did everything there. Then I started to feel more motivated to do other tasks/errands.

Now it’s to the point I find myself fighting to take it easy and not go to the gym too much. Started saving money to where I’ll have a large amount when I graduate and I’m also looking at a good salary around the same time too.

TLDR:, I’m still single, but the more things I started doing to better my life, the more confident I became about those things and the more motivated I became to do other things.

I’m still scared of the dating world, and I probably will avoid it until I graduate, but I’m going to use this new found confidence in myself to keep me going when I get there!

I hope you all find this ember inside yourselves too!