No Cast for a Broken Heart

I thought I would share with you some advice that I received years ago, but has helped a lot in understanding hurt.

I went to the doctors depressed, not from work pressure but from losing someone. The doctor looked at me and said

“Without an X-ray I can tell you the problem…a broken heart. Unfortunately, unlike the rest of your body, there is no cast that I can put around it to help it heal. It WILL heal but you need to give it time for it to bind together. Now what you can do for me is to exercise, to get outside and to be with people. That will be hard but it is the only recuperation for a broken heart”

This has stayed with me as I had never thought about it in this way. Time is like a plaster cast for the heart. Allow time to do its job. You wouldn’t rush a broken leg by running the 100 metres 10 days later!

But you can help the time “medication” by being with people, socialising, exercising, going to a film…anything that allows your mind to concentrate on something else. This is not forgetting, it is about allowing your heart to heal.

What is the best advice that you have received?