One evening, sitting at a sprawling resort in the hills of Kerala, surrounded by trees that looked older than memory, my girlfriend asked me something.

“How do I move on from people? Why can’t I let go — even when they’ve hurt me, betrayed me, or made me feel small? And how do I move on from people I once loved deeply? How do you do it?”

We spoke for hours. About heartbreak, about healing, and about how we learn to live with losing people. When I was done, she looked at me and said, “You should write this down. There are so many people out there who don’t know how to let go.”

So I did. It is a bit long, but stay with me.

My balcony and the hardest goodbye

The winter air was sharp enough to cut through thoughts. The tea had gone cold. I wasn’t crying. I wasn’t angry. I was just standin

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