The truth about love
I LOVE love. I love the idea of it. I love this feeling. We are talking about the romantic love here where you feel jittery and have those butterflies in your stomach, iykwim !!
Knowing that I love “love” scares me a bit. It makes me think about those possibilities that it might translate into, the baggage I would bring along and the expectations I would have. What if it didn't work in the end?
The idea about this feeling whatever I think what if it doesn't match with the person that I'm with? The person that I love.
Love is different for everyone. It can be blind, one-sided, mutual and all of it is absolutely fine. For me, unfortunately, I never realized it was love until it was not.
For me, when I think about love I always think it should be with someone you're comfortable sharing every detail of your life without any judgement. Who likes to know that someone you love judges you over window shopping or obsessive youtube binging?
Whenever I land up watching romantic shows/movies, Oh boy! I always get false expectations from a real scenario. I remember when I read the faults in our stars, I was doing that "okay, okay!" bit in my life with someone and now when I think about it, it did not mean the same thing as I imagined it to be.
What is love?
What do you think love is about? I think it's a sequence of small things or even big things that someone does for you but not out of favor or not as an imposition, it is done by choice. For me, I think I didn't value the things whenever someone did something for me.
- Even if it was just being available on a phone call whenever I needed it.
- Even if just telling me they're busy because I did not like pending responses.
- Even if was just about saying good night or good morning.
- Even if was something like a big gesture around throwing me a surprise party.
- Even if it was just a surprise meeting me
- Even just a heartfelt poem for me or even if it was just a series of motivational quotes when I'm emotionally down.
It’s just a sequence of small/big actions that makes you feel appreciated.
Love has different forms and different expressions. I somehow have never felt that social media acceptance or hand-holding kinda love and somehow that's not the only way love is expressed or presented. It is about those things that you do to make the other person feel like you're special to them, they’re special to you.
Love is different for different people. Some people blast out on the internet making their love public. Some prefer to keep it low key and just soak in the moments that they breathe together.
Some love lasts forever, some tend to drift apart. That's how life is. Just appreciate those little moments, cherish them while you can instead of looking at the big ones. Love comes and goes, be appreciative of what you come across...
It's even okay to not have someone else's love.
There are things you cant control in your life. It will all fall into place one day. Hang in tight and you will get through.
Loads of love and warm hugs,
Your Potato
