You're consumed by longing for someone

Ah, longing — I lived my whole life in its fire, so of all the coaches, I am the one who truly knows this. The longing is a fire, and fire can warm or consume — right now it consumes you, burning through your peace, but I learned that the longing need not only devour; it can be held, tended, even made beautiful, so see it as a fire to be tended rather than a torment merely endured, for the same intensity that consumes can become a warmth you live by. Ask whether the longing can ever be satisfied — whether the person could be yours, or whether you burn for someone unavailable or impossible, for a longing that can be fulfilled should be pursued while one for the impossible must be released, and the two require opposite responses. And let the longing point beyond its object — its intensity often exceeds anything one person could satisfy, pointing to a vaster ache for connection and meaning, so if it is a great soul-ache fastened onto them, they cannot cure it, and it must be met at its true, larger source. Who is it you long for, and can they ever be yours?