"I suppose I think about love more than anyone really should. I am constantly amazed by its sheer power to alter and define our lives.
It was Shakespeare who also said "love is blind". Now that is something I know to be true. For some quite inexplicably, love fades; for others love is simply lost. But then of course love can also be found, even if just for the night.
And then, there's another kind of love: the cruelest kind. The one that almost kills its victims. Its called unrequited love. Of that I am an expert.
Most love stories are about people who fall in love with each other. But what about the rest of us? What about our stories, those of us who fall in love alone? We are the victims of the one sided affair. We are the cursed of the loved ones. We are the unloved ones, the walking wounded. The handicapped without the advantage of a great parking space! Yes, you are looking at one such individual."
-The Holiday-
& then there are those of us who constantly watch other people find love, abuse love, mistreat love, take advantage of and then throw away love like last week's garbage, without a second thought... While we watch in agony, because what we wouldn't GIVE to even HAVE that love in the first place..
They say that love makes people do stupid things... But isn't it a tad bit contradictory when those 'stupid things' jeopardize said love in the long run?!
If you are blessed enough, fortunate enough, to stumble upon something that many others may never even find in their lifetime, TREASURE it. Hold onto it. Appreciate it. And for God's sake, don't EVER risk it for anything. Because somewhere out there, someone else is more deserving, and if you are willing to lay something that incredible on the line (for one sole night of pleasure, for one lie, for a second of hesitation), then that someone else is every bit deserving to take it from you.
If you love something... Never, ever risk losing it.
It was Shakespeare who also said "love is blind". Now that is something I know to be true. For some quite inexplicably, love fades; for others love is simply lost. But then of course love can also be found, even if just for the night.
And then, there's another kind of love: the cruelest kind. The one that almost kills its victims. Its called unrequited love. Of that I am an expert.
Most love stories are about people who fall in love with each other. But what about the rest of us? What about our stories, those of us who fall in love alone? We are the victims of the one sided affair. We are the cursed of the loved ones. We are the unloved ones, the walking wounded. The handicapped without the advantage of a great parking space! Yes, you are looking at one such individual."
-The Holiday-
& then there are those of us who constantly watch other people find love, abuse love, mistreat love, take advantage of and then throw away love like last week's garbage, without a second thought... While we watch in agony, because what we wouldn't GIVE to even HAVE that love in the first place..
They say that love makes people do stupid things... But isn't it a tad bit contradictory when those 'stupid things' jeopardize said love in the long run?!
If you are blessed enough, fortunate enough, to stumble upon something that many others may never even find in their lifetime, TREASURE it. Hold onto it. Appreciate it. And for God's sake, don't EVER risk it for anything. Because somewhere out there, someone else is more deserving, and if you are willing to lay something that incredible on the line (for one sole night of pleasure, for one lie, for a second of hesitation), then that someone else is every bit deserving to take it from you.
If you love something... Never, ever risk losing it.
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