How can you mend a Broken Heart?

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It’s a line from an old BEEGEES hit song that poses a very relevant question. Can a wounded heart be mended?

While watching the recent Pacquiao-Marquez fight on live TV, my daughter can’t seemed to find the right place to sit and watch from… for her at that moment it seems that every chairs and floors on the house were littered with cayenne chili pepper. Finally, when that moment came that Pacquiao kissed the canvass, she had bitten the pillow she was holding and sank her face unto it, with exasperation and weariness she declared that her heart was in pain. She was and probably is still broken-hearted. Like most Filipinos and foreigners who witnessed the fall of an idol, it was indeed a shattering feeling expressed in various ways.

All of us somewhere in our lifetime will or had experienced a similar pain. The pain of a wounded heart.  A wounded heart is devastating to some and a learning experience for others. It is a given from the start, pain will and is a part of every human life. But people react, in particular, to the pain of a broken heart in different manner depending on its dimension and severity. Some chooses to build a wall of isolation to protect themselves from another harrowing experience. They shut themselves from the outside world. They exhibit a defensive behavior almost always to the detriment of a budding relationship. It is a snail like sort of behavior. Some ignore it and masked their agony with work and lots of work or fun and lots of fun to the point of wildly exhaustion only to return and re-experience relapse of what has been there all along. A few has very little tolerance and they take booze or drugs to the point of addiction. Many harness their faith to seek comfort. Whichever, after everything is said and done, it will still be there, because we cannot mend a broken heart. We cannot do it. No one can. It healed by itself…, in time. All we have to do is wait while living a normal life. That is our destiny, like a child does, to learn from pain and face the rest of what is left in our life knowing that we are more equipped with greater emotional and spiritual sagacity.

Let’s watch a child. Let’s learn from him.

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