What is love to you? When you fall in love with your best friend who’s your world, what is love to you? When you love someone, you in a way, sacrifice so much for them. You do whatever it takes to make them happy, you protect them in any way possible, you try your best to give them the world. Know what else love does? It makes you vulnerable. It sometimes can even make you scared and question the way you’re living your life. Love is a lot of things, it makes you open to things in your life that you never thought you’d be open to before. It’s complicated, it’s exciting, and quite an adventure itself.

You also reciprocate for the person you love. You remind them everyday in some type of way how amazing they are in many ways such as just a simple “good morning beautiful” text or getting them a little gift to express your love for them because you want to see them smile. Even the little things with matter with someone you love, it makes you more appreciative. When they get hurt, know how you really love that person? You cry for them, you feel for them, and your heart breaks for them. Here you are looking at this wonderful human being who’s hurting and you only want nothing but the best for them.

Now, the issue is people do these things for people who don’t love them back the same way. You lie to yourself over the months and think maybe there is something there when there isn’t. Were you led on at some point on and off? Maybe, but you continue to open up your heart to that person because you believe in that person. You believe in all the wrong things maybe with that person. You constantly get shut out though by this person, but you don’t want to give up on that person because thinking about them living life without you scares you to the point where you cry some nights. When something goes wrong, it hits you harder than ever, yet, you keep fighting for that person. Even when you argue with that person, you keep hoping for the best. Deep down, though, you want to be enough, but at the end of the day, you’re just not.

Is it how I look? Am I not spending enough? What am I saying wrong? Why does this have to ruin everything? Why does it have to be like this? Why God? Why? You ask yourself all these questions to the point where your anxiety drives you over the edge. You invest so much into this person that you think there is no going back, right, but once you realize you aren’t good for each other, it really hits you doesn’t it? You realize what really went wrong and that it’s time for one of you or the both of you to walk away from each other. You cry because you realize that person and yourself especially need to be happy in life even if it means not being in each other’s lives. Your negative side? You decide to put that wall up in your heart and you promise yourself to never love again because you thought you had it all.

Now look at this way. Be thankful that you had good memories with this person. Don’t focus on the bad. Be thankful that you got an opportunity to grow with this person. Be forever grateful that you got the honor to once love and know this person. Think about the things you were taught by that person and apply it to your everyday life situations if you can. Look at the good side of all of this and learn from it. Granted, you will always keep that person in your heart, but you will eventually learn to move forward and meet someone new and better whether you may believe it or not now, you will because that’s the exact same thing I have to convince myself, too. It’s never the end of the world like it may seem to be. I promise.