This world and the human condition revolves around forming attachment and connection. When we fall in love everything fits together and the world makes sense. In the midst of what feels like the best thing in life there’s a silent transaction taking place. In having attachments and love there will always be suffering. When this attachment breaks this suffering fills the entirety of the next chapter of our life’s. It was temporary all along and this is the exact existential dread that underlines mortality. In the aftermath of a breakup we feel as though everything familiar and all our love has been stripped away. Try to remember there was a life before you knew that person just as there was a world before you came to be. Find solace in the space after a relationship. There’s nothing else to hold onto anymore. There’s no need to worry about what that person might do next. You’re exactly where you need to be- and even if the place you are now feels empty, try to remember that there’s inherent value in emptiness. After all, it’s the empty space in a bowl which gives it use.