"WHAT EVERY HEARTBREAKER HAS TAUGHT YOU"
INTRO:
Welcome to the class of life.
Experience is your teacher.
Here's your lesson:
"WHAT EVERY HEARTBREAKER HAS TAUGHT YOU"
Some hard ways to learn
are the kind that may permanently burn.
Every heartbreaker has left you a lesson,
'though you feel you're always forced to learn.
They've taught you that you should put yourself first,
instead of listening to others
those who insist that you find someone
so you won't have to be all alone.
Wrong!
They've taught you that life is nothing like your once stupid, girlish fantasies
your parents may have read from those ancient bedtime stories
just to help you to sleep.
They've taught you
that those Hollywood rom-coms and K-dramas' main characters don't represent you,
some hot chicks based on some beauty standard
that so many boys and men may forever gaze at.
They've taught you that you're just some nice, ordinary-looking girl next door,
a best friend - or perhaps a sisterly figure
but not girlfriend material,
at least not according to them.
They've taught you that anyone can say they love you,
then take it back the next day,
saying they're sorry.
They were just so drunk and lonely
and you happened to be there - as always.
They've taught you that wearing your heart out on your sleeve bears that risk,
of being laughed at, of being called weird,
of being considered 'too easy' and 'overconfident',
just because you choose to be honest with your feelings for them.
They've taught you that you're at risk of being targeted, manipulated, and played around
by some predators out there looking for fun.
They'll play the role of some 'Prince Charming,
consistently dropping you their 'love bombs'
until you let your guard down and fall into their TRAP!
They've taught you that some people pretend to care
just to see how far they can go
before dropping you like a hot potato
once they're done playing ... and you're just ... broken ...
They've taught you that you should've stopped with your stupid expectations.
Maybe people who laughed at you have been right all along:
"Are you sure this guy's serious with you?"
"What if he's just playing?"
"Don't get too confident!"
"What makes you think that he really wants to visit you?"
"See, I was right. He was just playing you. How come you didn't see that coming?"
"You're such a FREAK that nobody wants to be with you!"
They've made you wish that your mother would stop dismissing you with:
"Then he's not the one. Find someone else. Get over it."
You wish that - for once - she'd acknowledge your pain with:
"I'm sorry it happened again. I know it hurts, baby."
They've taught you how to be alone and keep being good at it.
Those lessons have done numbers in the heart,
that falling in love feels like a dangerous job.
You don't know when to receive the next bullet, that fatal shot.
They've taught you that you're the only,
the one in charge of your own recovery
because eventually - everybody leaves
even those with promises that you and they will always be ...
OUTRO:
That's the lesson for now.
Thank you for attending.
Class dismissed.
-REW.B-
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