Originally Posted by JBeaucaire
It's totally fine for you to feel the pain of this reality. It is what it is. Don't let anyone, including yourself, beat you up for your emotional response. Let it happen.
Feel it as long as you have to. In the end, this is the stuff that makes you stronger, wiser, lets you stand taller next time because you're better prepared.
Nothing is as educational as experience. We give advice here hoping to help in the aftermath, but you are the one being burned in the fires of learning. You are being refined, you're become of purer heart and that means it's worth it.
Don't seek calm, let the storm flow now, now is its time. Our shoulders are here as best as they can be.
But when its time has passed, take your control back, your new stronger/wiser/experienced control.
You are SO going to be OK.