When you are ready to put your heart into this world again, do not look for the same kind of love you have experienced: resist the urge to compare the human beings that come into your life to the ones that have left. Because the truth is two loves will never be the same.

Love is a like fingerprint, curated between two individual souls, and within that it is always its own rare and beautiful thing, those moments in time. in moving on, in dealing with the breaking and the rebuilding of your heart, you grow. You become a different person, and in turn the love you need, the love that will nourish you and inspire you and meet you where you are now - that grows as well. That changes.

When you are ready to put your heart into this world again, do not look for the kind of love you recognize, for the kind of love that mirrors something that did not beat the odds. Instead, search for the kind of love you need - as you are, in this season of your life. 

Do not compare it or doubt it when it arrives, it will be different. It always be different and it will say your name differently, and it will laugh differently, and hope differently, and you will make different memories within it: you will feel it in your bones in a way that you won't be able to express, in a way that will feel new and somewhat scary, but right. Do not seek familiarity, do not keep searching for your past in your future. Trust what comes.