I’m grateful for my failures via /r/gratitude

My failures in relationships have been my biggest lessons of who I want to be in the future. The painful discomfort I’ve had to sit with of losing someone very very close to me has been my greatest lesson.

It’s allowed me to dive inward in my own self-discovery, traumas, and patterns. In past relationships I would cope or distract myself, but the same patterns return in the next relationship. So I’ve decided to change, not for her, but for me.

Some days I wish things could go back to the way it used to be, but lately I am grateful for the mistakes I’ve made because they have softened my exterior core and allowed space for me to be a better me.

I’ve been repeating this to myself daily:

What once was: is a lesson
What is now: is a test
What will be: is an answer I have yet to discover

Thank you for reading.
Have a great day, and choose to be kind to yourself and others!