LLL (Learning Love Lessons).

Love is truly something. It can make you feel on top of the world, or lower than the deepest parts of the ocean. It’s crazy how someone (or even a love for a thing) can alter your judgment, perception, and even have you questioning your sanity lol. It’s almost like this insatiable appetite that we have, yearning for someone’s true love and acceptance. It can be a gift and a curse depending on how you look at it and respond to it. On one hand, love can motivate you, empower you, heal you, and align you with the best parts of yourself. On the other hand it can deceive you, mislead you, weaken you and on the extreme side even kill you. This happens because love alone isn’t enough. You can love anybody, but when you’re deciding you want to be with a person you have to do more. It must come with communication, trust, loyalty, respect, reciprocity, compassion, companionship, compromise, openness, dedication and faith. It must come with all these things because it isn’t just you in the relationship. In life you must put yourself first, respectfully. In love you have to put yourself first too, but with a reminder that it isn’t only your heart at stake. You have to try. And when it doesn’t work out, you try again. And again. And again. And again. Maybe not with the same person lol, but you get it. You keep on trying. You keep on loving. That’s our superpower. The ability to love, be loved, and love again. We go through many ups and downs with our love life. From thinking that person was going to be the one, to not having them, to grieving, to dating, to not thinking about them, to loving someone else again, and then we repeat the cycle until the end. It’s a process. It’s a journey. But through it all we feel the intense emotions that love can bring. It’s such a beautiful thing. When God gave us roses, they also gave us the thorns that sting.