Your survival guide if you spot your ex on campus
Every college student needs one!
Breakups are hard enough as it it! However, breaking up with someone who is five city blocks away from you should be used by U.S. military forces in Guantanamo.
You’ve taken your time trying to get over your ex by binge watching seasons of Sex and the City, finishing a whole bottle of wine by yourself, and surrounding yourself with your girlfriends.
You pull on your baggy gray sweatpants and trek out to 7/11 to buy your last Twix bar before you seriously rededicate yourself to a regular gym schedule.
But as you’re digging through your purse for those two pesky dollars- BAM- there he is. Your ex. Your breath hitches in your throat, I mean you knew you were eventually going to see him again but not RIGHT NOW.
Me too Fiona, ME TOO
This has got to be God’s version of a practical joke, and one that you don’t find that funny. You were hoping the next time you saw him you would look like Beyonce at the Grammy’s and less like pre-2015 Kylie Jenner. And of course he's wearing the shirt you love and he smells SO GOD DAMN good. And you wonder will this breakup always sting like the cheap 7/11 coffee you just took a swig of. And the answer is no, it won’t. But unlike that burn on your tongue, this won’t get better in a few days.
Coffee tastes better with your best friend (and when it's not from 7/11 at 11 pm) anyway
Getting over an ex is going to feel longer than an 8 am on a Monday morning and it's going to hurt more than having to get up for it too.
His existence is going to be painful for a while; seeing him is going to hurt. You’re going to be in enough pain, so don’t add to your own suffering.
Creeping on his Instagram to see if any new girls have followed them is only going to drive you crazy. Going out and hooking up with someone to prove to yourself that you’re over him is only going to hurt you in the end. It's okay to be a little petty in the beginning. Admit it, we’ve all said a little prayer that our ex pays $5 to get into a frat party that ran out of beer.
Beyonce gets it!
But ultimately, you can’t make him want you, and you can’t make him come back. All you can do is focus on yourself, cause at the end of the day that’s all you’re in control of.
Go to the gym, run out your heartbreak, redecorate, go downtown for a day, have a movie night with your best friends, or finish that paper you’ve been putting off for weeks. Just keep doing the things that make you remarkably you. What did he think? He wasn’t with no average bitch, boy.
Trips downtown are good for the soul, plus they'll put those needed extra blocks between you and your ex!
Find places and people that bring you comfort and joy and dedicate your energy to those things, they deserve your attention more your ex’s Snapmap’s location and who he’s with.
You can’t control if he moves on faster, or if he has a class in the next room that ends the same time as yours. You can’t control when you run into him, all you can control is how you react.
So the next time your late night cravings lead to a run-in with your ex while you’re clad in your sexiest groufit, grab your king sized candy bar (you earned it), ask him how he’s doing and strut out of that 7/11 like Beyonce emerging from that church in the Hold Up music video (your field day t-shirt from grade school resembles her yellow dress somewhat right?). Getting over someone is never easy, but chin up cause we all have been there and we have all survived. And girlfriend you’re way too perfect to ever feel this worthless. Keep killing it.
Besides, your friends are definitely your most important college relationship!
***special shoutout to Eddie Dietzler who allowed me to use his photo to resemble my ex-boyfriend, what a real one***