6. blood.

investment in others is inevitable.

i think it could be a fact to say that every contact with another person affects both you and them in some way; it influences the world for an instant and that impact remains.

i think heartbreak is very far from being limited to romantic love.
heartbreak is a decision that someone makes that causes one to abandon a portion of who we are forever.
no matter the size of that piece, i don't think that it is ever our own anymore.
when we love another person--a friend, a brother, a lover--we give them something from our heart and soul.
they own that piece prior to heartbreak and after the heartbreak.

at some point in time, that piece of you made them a little more whole. love fulfills. real love builds up and forms goodness within us. something that makes someone more complete can't exactly be taken back once they've decided that you're not who they want anymore. it stays there for good.

it's like donating blood.
when someone's body is going through a traumatic situation and loses blood, a donor's blood is urgently given to them. if the blood matches, it must been given to whoever needs it.
this foreign blood replaces what their body cannot create for itself. it saves their life.
it remains, continuously pumping through each of their organs, keeping them alive.
another person's blood.
blood isn't exactly something that can be "borrowed."
your blood has made them whole; a permanent investment.

all of those pieces of your broken heart that are scattered among people that you love and have loved are simply and beautifully your accomplishments. take heart in them.

don't ask for your blood to be returned.
how selfish would that be?