breakup

brain studies have shown that the withdrawal of romantic love activates the same mechanisms in our brain that get activated when addicts are withdrawing from substances like cocaine or opioids.

"...there could be no new beginning, nor would one be important. we are not aware when new beginnings arrive; we only discover them later when they have already engulfed us, when everything merely continues. then we believe that everything could have been different, but it could not have, and so we rush into springtime, so as not to think about nonexistent beginnings or unpleasant continuations."