(I stumbled onto this article when I was in 10th grade… in these 7-8 years I’ve read it more times than anything else I’ve ever read.)
Love ……… as I felt
(The beginning…… the end)
-Anonymous
It hurts to love someone and not to be loved in return, but what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel. Maybe GOD wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift. Love is when you take away, the feeling, the passion and the romance in the relationship and find out you still care for that person. Sad thing in life is when you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end, that it was never meant to be yours and you just have to let it go. When a door of happiness closes another opens but oftentimes we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
The best kind of friend is the one you can sit on the porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you’ve ever had. It’s true that we don’t know what we’ve got until we lose it, but it’s also true that we don’t know what we’ve been missing till it arrives. Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they will love you back. Don’t expect love in return, just wait for it to grow in their heart but if it doesn’t, be content it grew in yours. There are things that you’d love to hear that you would never hear from the person whom you would like to hear them from, but don’t be so deaf as not to hear it from the one who says it from his/her heart.
Never say good bye if you still want to try, never give up if you still feel you can go on, never say you don’t love a person if you can’t let go. Love comes to those who still hope although they have been disappointed, to those who still believe although they’ve been betrayed, to those who still need to love, although they have been hurt before and to those who’ve the courage and faith to build trust again. It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Don’t go for looks, they can deceive. Don’t go for wealth, even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Hope you find the one that makes you smile. There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real. Hope that you dream of that special someone. Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go, be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things that you want to do. May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy and enough money to buy me gifts. Always put yourself in other’s shoes. If it hurts you then it probably hurts the person too. A careless word may kindle strife, a cruel word may wreck a life, a timely word may level stress, a loving word may heal and bless. The beginning of love is to let those we love be themselves, and not twist them with our own image otherwise, we love only the reflections of ourselves we find in them. The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear. The brightest of future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can’t go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches. When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you’re the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.
(not that I’ve ever tried it though)
