NOTE: This isn’t an emo Miles rant, (In fact I haven’t even dated anyone for a whole year!), this is just an observation that might be able to save you some heartache.

The image above, albeit cliche and contrived, represents the concept of what happens during a break-up. Someone tearing out your heart from your chest. And the reason why it’s so universal and perfect, is because of what the image means.

When someone breaks up with you, they do figuratively tear your heart from your chest. Even if your emotions towards the break-up don’t reflect the intensity behind the action of ‘ripping,’ it is what happens.

I don’t know why it works this way but, you’re never going to be able to get over that person.

So from now on every person that you meet will be meticulously compared to that person.

And unfortunately, none of them will be able to measure up to the false memory that you two once “had.”

And even after the break-up they’ll still keep your heart for a little while. Keep it for small things like, when they’ve had a really shitty day and need someone to talk to they trust.

Eventually, they’ll think that they can give you your heart back when you both find someone new.

Unfortunately it won’t work that way.

Now that they have your heart. You’re pretty much an empty cavity inside. For lack of a better term, heartless.

You will now treat each person you meet with passive aggressive contentiousness that will ruin relationship after relationship for many years to come.

And maybe it’s a little selfish to feel this way since all you have is the memory of what happened to you, we should stop and wonder is it possible you were hurting worse than us?

Still, despite what you might be feeling, our feelings still turn to greed because in the end, for humanity, it’s mainly about what we need.

Regardless of how you handle break-ups usually, this is what happens. The capacity and accessibility of memory and greed cannot allow for anything but; subconsciously or otherwise.