"happiness is a magnet. It attracts good things and people to you. It makes you attractive" they say. And I know. I agree. I'm attracted to happy people myself. We all are. Yes. Happiness is a magnet. But I've came to realise lately that it's the pain that connects us. It's the tears we shed that helps a build a real connection with another person. That it's not the people we laugh with who hold our hearts, it's often the people we cry with. Happiness is sexy, yes. But vulnerability is precious. We do not allow everyone to see us in our brokenness, to know our story, to tell us "it's okay, you can cry" or "no. You don't have to cry as long as I am alive". Our brokenness is such a precious gift that we cling to like a child clings to their most precious toy. A gift that we can only hand to people who know how to love the broken. It's the pain that let's us know who's really there and who isn't. It's the pain that teaches us all the important lessons. The people who help us pick the pieces of our brokenness, those are the people we connect to, those are the people we let our guards down for, those are the people we allow into the dark corners of our being and see us for who we are.. Broken, vulnerable, still a child at heart, barely holding ourselves together, crying silently for help. Yes I know, happiness is attractive, happiness is sexy,, but pain, pain is a precious gift, a blessing in disguise. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ #writtenbyrj #writersofinstagram #writersofig #writing #heartbreak #blessing #loa #poetrycommunity #poetryporn #poemsporn #wordporn #wordsmith #writerscommunity #model #darkpoetry #goth #india #igers