“There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved”.
Life is for love. There is no higher purpose forlife than to love and be loved. Love gives us purpose and meaning to our life and it makes life worth living. The fact is that each of us is capable of loving and being loved.
Everyone craves to love and be loved. But do we love ourselves? The way we love ourselves, portrays who we are. If we don’t love ourselves, we won’t be able to love others and be loved in return. Find love within ourselves for everything we do, for who and what we are.
Some people would say that when you love someone, you’re supposed to fight for them until your very last breath. Some people would say that love is worth destroying yourself for, if it’s for the person you love. Some people would say that you could never love someone if you don’t love yourself first. Some people would say to never lose yourself in love, because you are worth so much more than that.
But despite what everyone would say, whether you end up being the good or the bad person in your story, at the end of the day, you have had enough courage to feel something most people are afraid to feel- love. Your feelings are valid and nobody in this world could ever take that away from you. Listen to your gut feeling because most of the time, it’s always right.
If other person is the cause of our love, we set ourselves up for some initial ecstasy followed by inevitable frustrations. Because, sometimes he/she will do things that make us feel loved, and sometimes he/she will do things that make us feel unloved. We need to find love within ourselves to love others. This teaches that our purpose of life is not to import love, but to express it. Instead of being love seekers, we become love finders. We do not await love, rather we generate it.
One simple truth about love is that we can’t make people stay in love. We can’t force them to love us. But we can be happy loving ourselves and accepting others as they are because love is in us. Love is a decision. Like in a garden, we need to tend to our love, pull away carefully the weeds that might take from our love the nourishment that it needs.