#a thousandfold

[lemedy]

ah, yes. the [outwardly serene and zen] and [internally screaming and blood shoot out of eyes] mode.

this is known to me.

[pointless-letters]

"Don't get me wrong, the cat videos are brilliant. It's just the evil, banditry and general perplexity I can't be doing with."

[enthusiastichead]

A good emotion: laying in bed the whole day and listening to breakup songs because you somehow can't get over your ex even though he's literally the worst human ever and you were with him for like three years nice!

[martotheavenger]

If you give them your love, they will return it a thousandfold

It’s what queen Margaery told Joffrey in HBO’s Game of Thrones. It’s my favorite line from the show. I’ve always wanted this to be true and I often felt like it wasn’t. I felt like I’m giving and giving and giving and still I never receive a thing.

I’ve been wrong.

Receiving is not the point. The point is giving. Because we are talking about giving love. And giving love is not like giving goods, or giving help. If you really love, you’ll be happy to be able to give something from yourself. 

If you give them your love, they will return it a thousandfold. This is what happened to me this semester in the uni. At first I didn’t like my new colleagues. But I started getting used to them, started seeing the good in them, started accepting them. And I started being there for them. Helping them with their papers, talking to professors instead of them, giving them any advices they asked for, appreciating their advices… When they didn’t know how to work with some program or write some paper, I would invite them home, show them on my big tv screen what and how they needed to do… And it all worked out. It really, really worked out. They gave me the best birthday, they are writing me e-mails like “You’re always so helpful, I’m lucky to know you!”, they appreciate me. I have to write this paper, I have to give questionnaires to specific kind of organization and I didn’t have any organization that’ll agree to fill it. So a colleague of mine said “You can always go to my father’s firm, I’ll talk to him, it’s not a problem.” Without that I would have failed the subject. And two days ago another colleague of mine called me and told me “Hey, I heared you were looking for a job, we are searching for a new person in our department, would be interested, I could put in a good word for you?” :) And today they called me to ask me on a job interview. It could work out or not, but the fact that she got me this far is amazing and I really appreciate it. Now they are doing me favors all the time, they are really, really great.

I have given them something, but not so much. What I’ve given, I have received it a thousandfold.

So my advice to you is this – don’t be afraid to give love. True, real, genuine love. To everything and everyone around you. Love them, just love them for what they are, for what they could be... Just give them your love. You’ll receive it a thousandfold.