Victoria Morgan's poem teaches us about loving yourself and surviving heartbreak.
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00:00 How to succeed in Heartbreak without really trying?
00:03 First, do nothing.
00:05 Become one with your couch,
00:07 eating whole stacks of Oreos like leaning towers of feelings.
00:11 Watch Jane Austen adaptations until your eyes become raisins.
00:14 Relish in Colin Firth emerging from the lake in a white shirt.
00:20 If you must do something, drink.
00:24 But keep it classy. Put your cheap wine in a glass. You aren't a pirate.
00:27 Talk to yourself. Talk to yourself in the mirror, on public transportation,
00:30 in the middle of the fountain at the mall.
00:32 Because there are things you never got to say.
00:36 And you don't have to swallow them.
00:38 Join Tinder. Make your profile picture a model and talk to no one.
00:42 Just keep swiping until you get carpal tunnel.
00:45 That way you can reject 50 people a minute and it feels like killing ants.
00:49 With abs.
00:56 Kiss as many people as you need to get the stamp of his lips off of your brain.
01:01 Go to museums. Realize other things have history too.
01:06 Play hide and go seek with your REM cycle.
01:09 We're not sure what's worse to wake up from.
01:11 The nightmares about your sides splitting open
01:14 or the dreams about him holding your jaw like it meant something to him.
01:18 You might as well tape your eyelids to your forehead
01:21 because at least you can lie to yourself while you're awake.
01:24 Stay up until 3, 3.30, or brew tea with the bags under your eyes.
01:29 Write. Write until you've used every metaphor in your library.
01:33 You start using the same one over and over
01:35 because there's only so many ways to describe being destroyed.
01:38 But once you get there, that's just the foundation.
01:44 Next, gather up all of the chinks in your chain,
01:47 fasten them together, make chain mail, and ride that bitch into battle.
01:51 Take his name, the one that still hurts to say,
01:54 and use it as a war cry.
01:55 Then actually cry, because there is nothing shameful about clearing your eyes.
02:00 Do not pick yourself up. Do not be okay,
02:03 because heartbreak is not about being okay.
02:05 It's about remembering that you were okay before.
02:07 It's about saying, "Fuck okay."
02:09 It's about taking all of your broken pieces and building yourself a castle
02:13 because I don't care who you are, you're a goddamn queen.
02:16 It's about saying, "Fuck this poem."
02:18 No one succeeds at heartbreak.
02:21 I built myself a throne room out of pizza boxes and empty Lunchables,
02:26 and I can't stop crying into my Campbell's chicken noodle soup.
02:30 But one day, I'll cry myself a fountain of youth.
02:34 Let's go back to the beginning.
02:36 I'm tired of self-help tips and friendly pick-me-ups.
02:39 I drank of bottles, bottles, and bottles,
02:42 pretending their mouths belonged to someone else.
02:45 But I'm done feeling sorry for myself.
02:48 Because why apologize for loving until you burst?
02:52 My capacity to feel needs no pardon.
02:55 My heart needs no mending. I am not broken.
02:58 I'm just a little more...
02:59 explosive.
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