Recently, me and a very close friend of mine had a conversation about love. She asked me if I ever thought of love as just wanting someone to love, as opposed to someone loving me.
Here’s my theory. Yes. Loving someone who doesn’t love you is possible. But it doesn’t work if you don’t have both. The problem with unrequited love is that it’s draining. After so long of giving and giving and getting nothing in return, it’s all gone. And all we have left is the feeling that we NEED to keep pressing forth and maybe someday this feeling of “love” will come back. We feel our minds with the endless maybes of how you need to do this to get them to love you and the maybe that one day he/she will love you like they should. Unfortunately, they won’t.
I don’t believe you can make someone fall in love with you, either they are or they aren’t. This is a big issue us ladies have. We just have to be big girls, suck it up and move on to the next guy.
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I still get a bit sentimental about my own situation. There was this guy who I was head over heels for. I may have downplayed it to my friends but in my mind this guy was really something special. There was attraction, flirtation, and like and lust were also in the picture. We hung out a lot, and my feelings for him grew, while I’m pretty sure his pretty much stayed stagnant. Regardless, me being that emotional girl I tend to be, I just figured, time would allow him to realize how much I cared about him and all would be well. Boy was I wrong. After a while, I reached a point where I could take things for what they were. And after years of hanging out and “hanging out”, I knew that that’s what we were. It was time to close the Word doc. to the fairytale I’d been trying to create and write what was. I’d spent so much time giving and giving and not getting the same in return. It was taxing. I was mad at myself for allowing it to get to that point, and I sometimes found myself angry with him, the unbeknownst. POINTLESS. So I did.
There’s still a little flutter when I see him or I talk to him. And I still find myself thinking about him more than I’d like to, but I know that the way things are is how it should be. It’s what’s best for me. I had to find someone who gave as much love as I gave them to keep me going.
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To me, “love” is like water cycle. Bodies of water give to the atmosphere and once it becomes saturated, it falls back down to Earth in those bodies of water. It’s a cycle of constant replenishing.
If you’re the little ole pond giving to the atmosphere, STOP! No one wants to really find themselves in the desert and the only precipitation that will be occurring is you, lying in bed, balling your eyes out with a box of Kleenex, Ben & Jerry’s, and an iTunes playlist of depressing songs that you finally understand because you’re in the same situation.
Words of encouragement: Be strong! Find someone who’s worth your love. They’re out there.
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CoCo Rene
Here’s to a doll and a special friend.