The kind of pain that crumples you like paper - that makes every part of you feel like it's somehow both on fire and drowning, at the same time. When that kind of pain comes around, don't bury it but allow yourself to feel it. Healing is not swift or easy, but it's rewarding, and at the end of it all, after you've cried and hurt and broken down a thousand times, you will find strength. Your own strength, which you will build to save yourself. To help yourself get through this moment of grief. Our mind will want us to push this kind of pain deep down, to avoid it, to look the other way, but doing that only means that you're moving on with the pain still weighing on your heart. When you face it headstrong, you give yourself a chance to free yourself of it. It's difficult to give in to the hurt, but you do that, do that for as long as you need to, and then slowly, step by step, let it go.