If you love someone, set them free. If they come back to you, they’re yours; love them forever. If they don’t, it was never meant to be. We do not possess anything in this world, least of all other people. At one stage in life, what you had is exactly what you wanted. You're the person who worked on it and made it what it was - no one ever forced you to. When it came to an end, well, no one is ever prepared for an end, but you yet again worked on it; harder than ever, in the hope of getting back what you'd watched walk away - you wanted things to get back to the way they were. One lesson in life which every single being experiences and learns is the fact that chances hardly ever exist and nothing you'll ever want in life starts off with a chance; it obviously isn't in need of one to want it.
A second chance is therefore a third chance, and no one will ever benefit from a third chance. As a result, if you're that one-in-a-million and get given a first chance, grab it with both hands and never let go because a second chance is only given by the foolish and blinded, and a third by the dead-minded, who will in no time realize that the third was the exact definition of a mistake; you'll have no choice but to watch it walk away...for good. Nothing in this world that's worth having and keeping comes easy, and nor is it simple to keep. The best things in life? Well they're priceless and the hardest ever to get hold off; you're lucky to ever get the opportunity. Striving and achieving what you've always dreamt of is the closest thing you can ever compare to love:- Falling in love isn't always going to be easy...you'll have to experience the anger, the tears, the hurt and the disappointments. However, despite the ugly and detrimental aspects of love, there are the beautiful portions; the trust, the laughter, the rushes and the excitement. There's so much more to it, but the feelings remain unexplainable; only you will ever know. Magic maybe the closest explanation, but even that is a shameful understatement. Truth of it is, nothing will ever compare; not even the second, third or fourth experience. Once you've achieved it, it's all yours and something you'll be comparing and looking back on with every single breath you take.
However, it's only when you still want what you've lost when you truly love what you had. Only then will you know that the love was true and had been all along. That feeling of being alone should make you aware of the fact that a second chance is not something you want or need and make you recognize the mistakes and faults much sooner than the previous situation, in order for you to deal with it more readily and correctly. If you'd never thought about it or met who you've met, you wouldn't like it. If you didn't like it, you wouldn’t want it. If you didn't want it, you wouldn't love it. If you didn't love it, you wouldn't miss it. But you did, you do, and you will. Don't ever be foolish and let the test of failure get to you; think of the greater things that you can never achieve and feel otherwise...the things you'll be forever missing and wishing you'd never let go of. If you ever decide on letting go, you're not supposed to love and nor are you supposed to care. You're not supposed to be living your life wishing what you’d let go off was ever there? You're not supposed to wonder where that thing is or what it is they do; you let go, you did that, you chose to. The lost or missed chance will move on and eventually make it, but you never will; you'll forever look back. So if it's really what you want, you can walk away and say you don't need it, but just remember your own bitter words when you begin to regret it all. You'll soon enough discover that real love is millions of miles past ever falling in love with anyone or anything.
When you make just that one effort to feel compassion instead of blame or self-blame, the heart will once again open and continue to open. Love the experience and the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart and the experience that loves you...that's when you'll lose everything, forever.
This really made me think. I've been in a situation of being forced by family and friends to think about letting go of true love. It was because I was feeling real down from a rough patch we were in, and it was affecting other aspects of my life.*
ReplyDeleteI believe love is a relative experience, and one person's attempt to explain it will never be the same as another's. Sort of like snow flakes. And no matter what, you can never love one person the same way as another.
*Those thoughts never did last too long though. At all. Because I've 'let go' before, and all I wanted was to have those moments, feelings, and experiences back. They didn't understand that every relationship is different and will inevitably go through it's bad times.
Well done.
I've just seen this, sorry for the very late reply! It's true, oh so true.
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