How Heartbreak Helped Me to Find My True Calling

Mutia Suri
Nov 2 · 2 min read
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I used to write a lot of diaries back when I was young. Every time its school season, I would buy a new diary book and religiously write everything inside. I made a blog, Tumblr, anything to keep my life updated with memories.

Growing up and life changed that habit. I forgot how to write and for the last 7 years since I enrolled in college, I didn’t write a diary, even though I just casually doodling and writing a note on my phone but never a diary. I got writer’s block for things that I usually enjoy to do. There’s always this feeling that I’m not good enough to write, my writing is so bad that people will judge me and so on.

So earlier this year, my love life was a mess and it broke my heart. Honestly, that one is the worst heartbreak I ever got! A little depressed by it, I couldn’t think straight for work. But then, I started to write something on my agenda book again.

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Now I realized if I don’t put my heart into something like book, I might get stressed by things easily. By pouring all my thoughts into a diary, I lifted, though not all, the burden from my shoulders.

Till today, if I got something in my head, I take my book and start writing things. Sometimes off-topic, but at least for times when it is really hard to breathe, writing becomes my therapy.

It seems like heartbreak is not that bad. It’s just a wake-up call for my passion.

Mutia Suri

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