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Maybe we will meet each other again someday. Maybe not. Maybe we might have a second chance. Maybe we can only just stay as friends. Anything can happen… specially as we’re both young and our lives are just beginning to unfold. But one thing is for sure: whatever happens, you will always have a special place in my heart.
Once you deeply and truly love someone, they become a part of you. Even if you’re not together anymore, even if you haven’t had contact since forever, they already are a part of you. You wouldn’t be who you are now if it wasn’t for them. You may eventually learn to move on, to let go… but you will always, always love them. That will never change. I guess whenever you tell someone “I love you and I always will”, it really is for keeps. Maybe at some point in your life it wouldn’t be the romantic kind of love anymore (it hurts but that’s life)… but love, still.
Maybe we just really need this. That’s something that is extremely sensible, but something that I keep forgetting. All of us always think of love and relationships as two people growing together, defying the odds, sacrificing everything just to be with each other and being used to just the two of you being against the world. But what we forget is that… love isn’t just about the couple growing together. It’s helping each other grow individually as well. It may hurt, but that’s real love. See, as individuals, we all want to live our lives to the fullest. The way we want to live it. But there will be times (many of it) that you’re going to have to compromise in order to comply with the standards of a regular relationship, to make your partner feel comfortable. We keep forgetting that as individuals, we need to experience other things to be happy, that we couldn’t just keep sacrificing everything else. Meeting different people, doing what you want without restrictions… I guess that’s just some of a person’s basic necessities. You’re going to have to experience them at some point in your life. If you truly love someone, you’re going to have to help them grow as a person. To mature, to learn, to be wise, to be a better person. Even if you have to let them go.
Makes sense, doesn’t it? But we keep forgetting the true meaning of love. To love is to not be selfish. Loving someone has no boundaries. Loving someone doesn’t end when a relationship ends. Sometimes, even, true love is shown even more when you let someone go. It shows that you love them enough that even though it would hurt a lot, you still care about their wellbeing. Like that old Stevie B song says: When you love someone, you’ve got to learn to let them go.
It’s the truth about life and love. It’s the mature way of thinking about it. It hurts a lot to think this way, a way different from what we’re used to thinking. We have to keep reminding ourselves of its true meaning.
Once you deeply and truly love someone, they become a part of you. Even if you’re not together anymore, even if you haven’t had contact since forever, they already are a part of you. You wouldn’t be who you are now if it wasn’t for them. You may eventually learn to move on, to let go… but you will always, always love them. That will never change. I guess whenever you tell someone “I love you and I always will”, it really is for keeps. Maybe at some point in your life it wouldn’t be the romantic kind of love anymore (it hurts but that’s life)… but love, still.
Maybe we just really need this. That’s something that is extremely sensible, but something that I keep forgetting. All of us always think of love and relationships as two people growing together, defying the odds, sacrificing everything just to be with each other and being used to just the two of you being against the world. But what we forget is that… love isn’t just about the couple growing together. It’s helping each other grow individually as well. It may hurt, but that’s real love. See, as individuals, we all want to live our lives to the fullest. The way we want to live it. But there will be times (many of it) that you’re going to have to compromise in order to comply with the standards of a regular relationship, to make your partner feel comfortable. We keep forgetting that as individuals, we need to experience other things to be happy, that we couldn’t just keep sacrificing everything else. Meeting different people, doing what you want without restrictions… I guess that’s just some of a person’s basic necessities. You’re going to have to experience them at some point in your life. If you truly love someone, you’re going to have to help them grow as a person. To mature, to learn, to be wise, to be a better person. Even if you have to let them go.
Makes sense, doesn’t it? But we keep forgetting the true meaning of love. To love is to not be selfish. Loving someone has no boundaries. Loving someone doesn’t end when a relationship ends. Sometimes, even, true love is shown even more when you let someone go. It shows that you love them enough that even though it would hurt a lot, you still care about their wellbeing. Like that old Stevie B song says: When you love someone, you’ve got to learn to let them go.
It’s the truth about life and love. It’s the mature way of thinking about it. It hurts a lot to think this way, a way different from what we’re used to thinking. We have to keep reminding ourselves of its true meaning.
Me? I'm just living my free and solo life right now. I've got my friends and I've got my freedom. I've got three wonderful dogs to look after and I'm pretty contented with the way things are.
But as you said, those that I have truly loved will always be a part of me... Even the one that was a BIG mistake... I've learned a lot and become wizer, because of her!