Over the weekend I watched Eat Pray Love. I gotta say, I didn’t love it.
But it was okay. I didn’t have to fast-forward through any of it at least and I did get one good line out of it:
Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
I’ve felt that way before. Almost seven years ago, to be exact (or approximate, whatever). When I was dumped by the first boy I really thought I wanted to be with for the rest of my life.Â
But then I met Paul a few months later. And suddenly everything made sense, not just having my heart broken by the ex, but everything before that too. And everything in between. All the bad, sometimes abusive relationships, all the things in college I only WISH I could forget, every stupid boy I’ve ever met…existed for a reason.Â
Ruin is a gift.
I’m trying to remember that now.