The same goes with relationships.

We know the basics… Play nicely… Treat others the way you want to be treated…
We practice… Failed relationships that we learned something from…
We are romanced with fairytales and wait for knights in shinning armour…
But perfection… Rarely happens.

So how do cope?

Some of us will spend a lifetime getting to know one person, who you will grow old with and be ever so much in love. Some of us will spend a lifetime of sexual encounters and that will be satisfactory. Some of us will spend an entire life married to a career and some might spend the rest of their lives consistently dating but never want or have a long term relationship…

If in ballet very few of us make it to be professional… Yet alone, become a soloist or a principal.

So few of us will make it into a healthy relationship… Yet alone get married and stay married … So that dream… doesn’t always come true…

And so, we move on. Some go onto teaching, and some will go back to school, and some will go into a world of glitter and the glamour of fashion.

So here’s a toast to the broken hearted…

My fellow people who have had their heart broken by lovers, by careers, or by dreams… It gets better.