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After a “lost weekend” where she didn’t emerge from her apartment except to walk the dog, Sara poured herself into a long-neglected hobby: song-writing.
“At first the songs were all ‘He done me wrong, poor, poor pitiful me’—super wallowing numbers,” she recalls. Gradually her work moved away from broken hearts and crushed roses to embrace more idiosyncratic topics like lazy summer days at the beach, how much she hates cell phones and rush-hour traffic. “I got so caught up in doing something I loved. There were longer and longer periods when I forgot I’d lost someone I loved.”
Finding something that sparked her passion and gave her a reason to get up in the morning helped her realize she was a lot more than a person who suffered a breakup.
Find out how other break-up survivors found inspiration in our feature, "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do."
Reading about someone's "lost weekend" isn't helpful when I think many of us go through weeks of mourning. Is one weekend really the norm? Maybe you need to clarify that it was still tough afterwards. I've been trying to do something good for myself everyday, but I think a few days isn't realistic to expect someone to just dust themselves off.
MY FRONT ROOM HAS BEEN REPOSITIONED SO I DON'T HAVE TO WALK INTO THE HOUSE AND SEE WHERE HE USED TO SIT. I ACTUALLY LIKE IT BETTER THIS WAY! DON'T KNOW WHY I DIDN'T THINK OF IT BEFORE.