How To Get Over Your Ex
You’ll get over your ex the first time you receive exciting news and it doesn’t occur to you to call them.
By Heidi Priebe
You’ll get over your ex the first time you forget their Mom’s birthday. It may hit you while you’re doing groceries, or four days prior to the date or even weeks after it passes but you’ll suddenly identify the nagging feeling inside the back of your mind that there was something you’d forgotten about the date June 17th. It will shock you that your mind has jumped ahead in the process of moving on — dropping subtle memories it no longer has a use for and surreptitiously discarding any knowledge that stands between you and moving forward.
So you let the important dates pass — first a family member’s birthday and then their birthday, then yours and on some days the distance seems impossibly small to bridge — the phone seems so easy to pick up, but you fight the urge down and keep going. Some part of you knows better — that you have to wait this out. You have to take it in waves. You know that someday you’ll forget their birthday and they’ll forget yours too and until that day you keep yourself busy. You keep moving. And you keep letting the small details slide.
