True Love

Do yourself a favor. Stop associating your ability to be a good person with how much you're willing to suffer in silence for others. There are people who can stay in your heart, but not in your life. Because sometimes you have to ignore what you feel and remember what you deserve. One day you'll meet someone who chooses you, and continue to choose you everyday. And that's when you'll be thankful that everything happened the way that it did. 

Don't expect quick intimacy. Find someone to lean into for a lifetime, like how you dreamt it was meant to be. Someone who will hold you through the still days and the hurricanes too. Because anyone can do the honeymoon phase. But true romantics hold for the distant moons and that are deeper and blue. 

There's somebody out there who will treat your heart so soft and so kind. So don't let the fear of being alone trick you into settling for anything less. We sometimes think that real love is a feeling. A feeling that you get when you are with them. We think that it is the longing that you get when you are apart.  We think that it is the look in their eyes, or the things you do for them that make them smile.  Sometimes, giving someone the power to destroy you and trusting that they won't. 

Now, love might be characterized by some of these things but true love is more. True love is a choice. It is when they choose you when you're anxious, when you're happy, when you're lost. It is when they choose you for the rest of their life. When they choose to love you on your best days and your worst.  Remember, you don't complete them and they don't complete you. But you build each other up.

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