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When You Put All of Your Eggs in the Wrong Basket

Sometimes you put all your eggs in the wrong basket, and that's ok

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When You Put All of Your Eggs in the Wrong Basket
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You have a basket, or you have a person, or you have a friend, or your have a significant other, and you put all your effort into them. You throw your love, and your faith, and your hope, and your desires, and your fears, and your emotions, and your secrets, and your effort and, most importantly, your life into their basket. You give them everything. You put all your precious, unique eggs into their basket. Then they do what you thought they would never do; they set your basket down, and they walk away.

Maybe you trust everyone or maybe you wear your heart on your sleeve, or maybe you trust a very special few. No matter who you are, you've been there. Maybe it was a stranger, or maybe it was your boyfriend or girlfriend, or maybe it was your best friend in the entire world. But you've been there; we've simply all been there. We have all trusted someone with our life, and they've let you down. They have abandoned you.

Yeah, sometimes it feels like the absolute end of the world. Literally. It's like the world is crashing on your shoulders and all you can do is smile through quivering lips. It honestly sucks. You have your life, like these eggs, that hold little bits of you; they are your secrets, they are your hopes, they are your dreams, they are everything you've ever wanted in life. And slowly, but surely, you put them in someone else's basket. You take little parts of you, and you give them your life with a confident smirk. You genuinely entrust them with your soul.

Nothing in the world is as fearful as handing someone your whole heart and soul. Just when you think you can trust them with everything you are, you get to watch them walk away.

But it's going to be okay. You're going to get up, you're going to get over it, and you're going to move on. You have to move on even when that seems unthinkable. Putting your eggs in the wrong basket isn't the end of the world. There are ways to regain what you have lost. When you give away little pieces of yourself, you learn what is most valuable about yourself.

Maybe it's singing in the shower, maybe it's dancing when no one's around, or maybe it's just smiling. But I promise you that one day you're going to wake up, and you're going to wonder why you ever stopped dancing. And that's the most rewarding thing in the world; more rewarding than your eggs in someone else's basket.

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