Telling someone that "the best is yet to come" sounds reassuring, but it treats your life like a book someone else is writing for you. Waiting around for a brighter chapter to turn up on its own is just a polite way of staying stuck in the current one. The past does not lose its grip on you simply because you decided to feel poetic about moving forward.
Releasing what hurt you is not a spiritual realization; it is a mechanical choice. It means deleting the number, closing the tab, and stopping the internal debate about why things happened the way they did. You do not heal by sitting passively and waiting for a sudden wave of closure. You heal by giving your hands something productive to build right now.
Your story is not over, but it will certainly stall out if you refuse to take the wheel. Hope is useless without a schedule. If you want a better future, stop asking for permission from your emotional state and start making small, non-negotiable promises to yourself.
Write the first page of the new chapter before lunch. Put ten minutes into the project you abandoned. Step forward through execution, not just faith.