You feel pain, you are hurt, and there is nothing that gives you hope or joy right now. You have to get through this phase - and oh how easy it is to write down that sentence, and how difficult to live according to it. You feel as though you're alienated from your own life, your own heart. Where is help or comfort? Only in the knowledge that this pain is part of the human experience, that no human being lived without it, and that you'll be a wiser, more empathic, stronger person when it's over and the sun comes out again.
