Everyone I have ever loved has been my teacher. Because, love itself is a teacher, and if we choose to humble ourselves to the lessons that it offers us, love has the ability to leave us utterly transformed. Heartbreak is inevitable, in ways both large and small. But heartbreak is medicine too, for it allows us to dissolve and to reconstitute ourselves anew, as many times as is necessary, until we become fully-formed humans with hearts more resilient than we ever knew possible.