Ten Steps to Recover From a Broken Heart (teenage angst challenge)

Step 1: Apply pressure to the damaged area. Cover the wound with statements that you know are false like "I'm ok" and "I never loved her anyway" in an attempt to stop the bleeding.

Step 2: Pick up the pieces of your broken heart off the ground and attempt reconstruction. WARNING: There will be missing parts! Such as your ability to trust another human being. The final product will resemble a half finish jig-saw puzzle.

Step 3: Search for your missing dignity in the wreckage of a relationship that once was.

Step 4:Smuggle your tears through the the daily grind of your everday routine. This is crucial for recovery, since the shedding of tears is the cleansing of wounds.

Step 5: The pillow you once held, imaging as if it was the soft curves of her fragile body is now your enemy, and in this war against your emotions you cannot sleep with the enemy. 

Step 6: Whatever is left between you and her must now be kept strictly professional, so stand tall and walk straight as if her departure didn't crush every bone in your body.

Step 7: Learn to hide your feelings behind a mask of hypocrisy and cheap jokes. 

When she asks you how you are doing proceed to tell the biggest lie in human history and reply "I'm good". All the time spent lifting weights could never have prepared you for the weight of the words that you're struggling to hold back.

Step 8: Forgive and Forget. Emphasis on forget.

Step 9: Avoid listening to The Script, The Fray, and Sam Smith.

Step: 10: Repeat.