A Parachute

Picture taken from here. 

parachute / pronounce / n umbrella-shaped device by which somebody may fall slowly and safely to the ground from an aircraft.

"The thing about love is I never saw it coming." 

Marie Digby - Say It Again 

I have this belief that when you’re facing the fall-in-love moment, you don’t choose with which guy/girl you want to fall to. You may have your own criteria list of your-perfect-boyfriend (or girlfriend) however, the list often seems turn out become a bit unreal and too demanding because you choose the best of the best of all. Thus, without knowing how is it going in real life because your list was inspired only by movies, silly love songs, or Disney's happy-ever-after stories. 

In reality, when you finally find the person, two of you started from the scratch. The first meeting, the following days you spend together, the feelings that grow, and so on and so on. How about the ending? If you're lucky enough and every thing falls in its place perfectly, you'd have your new relationship status. One last question is: what if you're not that lucky enough? What if the Universe didn't work the way you wanted them to be?

That's why you need a parachute. And what I mean by that is, certainly it is NOT the real parachute. To protect you from falling so hard from dreams into reality, you need something or even better, few things which will always be a friendly reminder for you. Heart break ain't an easy thing to handle, it's time for (your) parachute to the rescue! It's your dreams, the long-life plans, or list of 100 things you have to do before you're 30, all of them could be your parachute. Remember them, and I do hope they could lessen your pain.