Repeat After Me: Love Is Patient! Love Is Kind!

…love bears all things, believes all things, endures all things!—First Corinthians 13:7

Love

Some people (who are in love) often express their need for their partner. However, some others folks in love refuse to believe that someone else could be essential for them in order to exist. I have been a bit of both and I still keep jumping from one side to the other.

I know that it is possible to survive without someone you love. But is mere survival enough? Well, you don’t always get a choice. The cards are dealt; the game is played…! However, I fancy the idea of being in love with someone so much that they feel essential for your existence.

When in love, i know it is important to not make the other person the centre of your world. But the idea is so tempting, because when all is well in love-land, life becomes magical. I’d like to be my own person forever. Loving someone else is necessary for me because I believe life without people you love and cherish will be extremely dull!

I wish there was a way to avoid heartbreak. But I guess Thai people got it right when they acknowledged bitterness as one of the primary flavours in food. The bitterness of heartbreak is married to the light of love.

Misery has been my companion for the past several months with pain sprouting from different seeds. I don’t mean to say that i am deeply unhappy in my journey. I am not always miserable; but, in the lack of companions, I finds misery to be a constant in my life’s backdrop. So here i am, trying to accept this new companion completely all the while struggling with its heavy presence in my life.

I have finally realised: you are your most reliable safe space.

I wish to keep this revelation easily accessible in my mind’s filing cabinet.

I wish to have a complete human experience.