Time and time again, we come to hear how powerful love can be and how much lessons it can institute into our hearts and minds. Some are still out there searching, trying to find out the answers on how or who, and others, they are fortunate enough to see it with their own two eyes and know just by the experiences they have gone through. 

Love might be powerful and illuminating, however, there are things only time can teach us. We often forget that time is just as influential as love can be, sometimes, maybe even more.  Time teaches us how much we actually love a person when we’re together and at times, realize how much we really loved them only when we’ve lost them.

When we do lose that person, we keep hoping that one day, we’ll be able to regain what we’ve lost. And if things do not go in our favor, we just keep hoping that time will be there to change everything.

I remember a point in my life when I felt as if everything just came crashing down and I have reached my lowest point. As painful and heartbreaking it was, I was able to move on. People were there for me, my friends, my family and most of all, time.

Time was there for me when I believed love wasn’t. 

No matter how you might be feeling right now, whether you feel like punching a wall, cutting yourself, or even consuming a whole bottle of Crown Royal just to forget that heartache and torture and that infuriating pain in your gut due to a lost love, remember a time when you took a Tylenol after a throbbing headache. After a few minutes, the feeling of discomfort starts to die out.

Time is the pill for a heartache. 

They say “time heal all wounds”, but I beg to differ. Just like Tylenol, it sometimes only alleviates pain for a moment, but thus, gives you the opportunity to think clear on what to do next (perhaps see a doctor?). Just like time, it gives us the opportunity to think of the next step. It doesn’t heal all wounds, nor does it make us forget. It gives us time to clear our minds, so we can re-evaluate that “Love”.

Is it worth it to go back? Or did time allow us to have a change of heart and decide to just move on?

Love might be powerful and illuminating, however, there are things only time can teach us. We often forget that time is just as influential as love can be, sometimes, maybe even more. Remember, only time is capable of understanding how valuable love is. 

- Carmela David