You’ve spent your entire life building up walls, making sure that you let no one in to harm you like you’ve watched people harm your friends. Over and over again.
One day, those walls will crumble. One person forces you to let down all your guards and let them in. They’re incredible. They make those walls STAY down. The worst part is they didn’t even have to try. The way they smiled simply made your heart melt, made your walls unstable. You give yourself completely to that person desiring nothing else but to be with them. Love has taken control, your heart is held captive.
It’s all perfect, until reality kicks in. Love will screw you over. You regret letting those walls fall down. You feel weak. You feel hopeless, useless, and empty inside. You never want to love again. The very thing that brought you happiness, just as easily ripped your heart out, shredding it into a million pieces. Love fucked your world up and you have no idea how to handle it.
Love sucks, but the reality is we’ll all face it someday. We have to. Don’t be scared. Embrace it when it comes. When you love someone, tell them. You never know when they might love you back, or you may lose that someone and never had told them how you truly felt.
Empathize by putting yourself in someone else’s shoes. Don’t try to make someone who you want them to be, and don’t try to control them. Try and understand who they are, where they’re coming from, and how they feel. Realize that they could love you back too. Once you love, love unconditionally. Don’t hold yourself back and don’t make stipulations for that person…then it’s not love at all. Don’t use someone to make your life better. Strive to love unconditionally by allowing that person to be who they are just as you wish to remain being yourself.
Try loving for the sake of love and never expect anything in return. People show their love in different ways, don’t expect to be loved back in the same way. Also, don’t let someone mistreat or undervalue you, for that isn’t love either. Always remember that love CAN be lost. By losing someone you love, however, you have a greater appreciation of what you have. Don’t idol someone you love, that pressures them. Just know that you’re lucky to have them in your life.
