I'm learning that life will move on with or without you, with or without your consent.
It'll continue through lost friends, missed opportunities, ignored love, utter disappointment, failures. It'll continue and move forward when you're not ready to do so. It'll continue onward as you refuse to join it.
Life won't wait for you to regain strength after unavoidable trials and tribulations. It won't wait for you to steadily hold your ground and walk with confidence. It won't halt to give you the chance to brush off your problems and start anew.
Life isn't stopping for anyone or anything any time soon. It carries on, just as you should.
Take some time to nurse your wounds, wipe your tears, lean on your friends, but don't dwell in that. Stand up and carry on. The longer you dwell, the more life moves on without you, and therefore you miss more of what you should be living, experiencing, enjoying, and learning from.
Life carries on. Hang on and let it carry you along too. Let go every now and then if you need to, but make sure to catch up to the present once you've accepted that dwelling in your mistakes is a mistake in itself.
Life carries on, with or without your consent, with or without you. Find comfort in that life will continue when you don't think it could, which means you'll survive to see another day. Another day means another chance, another opportunity to grow and see and do.
I am learning that it's okay to move on with life, because it's moving no matter what. It's a fact and by choosing to accept it, I get to move on with my life and let my past be so and be okay with that.