A good friend of mine texted a quote about love and getting hurt because of love...which led me to this realization: I have had my heart broken many times in my life, but not one of those times was caused by a romantic relationship. Weird, because though I don't actually know how being heartbroken because of love life feels, the pain of having one's heart broken by other things hurts just as much, maybe even more.

And this is because love life or not, human beings love. And whether it be love for an organization, a group, a person, family, entity, as long as you've given a part of yourself to it and have devoted time and care and effort in nurturing it, you unwittingly make yourself vulnerable to possibly getting hurt by it. The more you love, the deeper it gets, the greater the chance of whatever it is that you have loved to hurt you back. A big risk, yes, but definitely a risk worth taking.

Loving is not focusing on the imperfections of whatever it is you love. It is looking beyond these imperfections and still seeing something perfect nevertheless. It is stopping to think about the reason why someone you love brushed you off and not taking it at face value... it is understanding, and devoting time and effort to understand. Because that is what love is all about. It involves the inspiration to take something as is and transform it into something it could be. Love is not complacent. Sometimes it is even too aggressive, to a point it can become annoying. But again, it is imperative to look for a deeper reason underneath all that because, sadly, intentions may not be delivered well. But that doesn't make those intentions any bad. It is a cycle of inputs and outputs where you get what you give....


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Thank God for tear glands. When words fail at release, they act as stand ins and serve their purpose.