World-renowned sitarist and composer Anoushka Shankar recently took to Instagram to share a beautiful post about first loves, heartbreaks and the lessons they teach.
This post came after her split with director-husband Joe Wright in January after seven years of being together.
And her post was a poignant reflection on why, even when relationships end, love does not.
She posted a picture of her with her first boyfriend reminiscing the time she first fell in love.
Often our first breakup convinces us that we may never love again. It fills us with a void that incapacitates us emotionally.
But love tiptoes back into our lives and changes our world as if nothing ever went wrong.
And as we move on in life, we understand that we have the ability to share and receive love many times over.
Anoushka’s post is a beautiful reminder that there is more than one way to ‘be in love’. Just as she is: in love with her kids, in love with her music.
As she steps into a new phase as a single parent, she reminds herself (and indeed all of us) that there is love all around us.
And we can never run short of it.
We cheer her on as she goes on in her life’s journey.
Image Credits: Anoushka Shankar/Instagram.