I’m sorry you might have loved till it hurt. In my short-lived teeny life, I’ve discovered how relationships could re-fabricate majority of our perceived happiness. So I have this simple, unsolicited advice (but I also believe it applies to almost everything):

Stop trying to hold on to things.

Like sunrise and sunset, beautiful things will come around and stay when they are meant to and leave when they aren't.

Your life will hold and contain what it can and whatever it should. Be as greedy to giving as you want — as loving, as angry, as funny, as hollow, as fulfilled, as broken, as optimistic and lost as makes you comfortable. As long as it feels like you’re in your own clothes and not something borrowed.

The people and things that you are drawn to might stay drawn to you until they don’t; and that isn’t your problem or concern.

They’ll all come and go. But while they are around for a visit, it will feel alright. In fact it will be sublime yet transient. It will be physics and love and everything in between. Enjoy every morsel of it, but never ever try to keep it. That’s just how this universe works.

Then stop thinking about how you don’t get to hold on to people, and start thinking about how – because of this exigence – you don’t need to.