When you feel completely vulnerable towards someone, is when you know you truly love that someone. Enough to risk them hurting you.
I had a conversation with a friend who was afraid of being in a relationship simply because of the many heartbreaking stories he’s heard from his female friends. True, he has never fallen in love, but the main reason isn’t because he’s afraid. It’s because he hasn’t found someone to fall in love with.
No matter how many times someone says they’re afraid of getting hurt, eventually they would still find someone to share their heart with.
Falling in love is a very natural and passive process. The feeling itself is so addictive that you can fall in love with the idea of falling in love. It doesn’t take a lot of effort to fall in love. The real challenge is keeping it.
Different people might explain their expressions of love in different languages. Mostly, indescribable. If you’re in your 20s, I think it’s safe to say that most have experienced this magical, indescribable euphoria of being on Cloud 9. And yet, some of these relationships fall apart within a third of the time it took to build it.
It makes people want to give up on love, and yet some hopeless romantics still believe in love.
I don’t believe that things don’t change; the only constant is change. But I do believe in loving someone (no matter how you measure it) that you would invest your life in it. A relationship is a lifelong investment, a decision, a plan, an effort, it’s yourself.
When one pillar stops holding, the tower comes crumbling.
