Oh sure, smiling when I see you and hugging you affectionately are fine and dandy. Want to talk for hours the night before my essay's due? How about give you advice, promise to be there for you, tell you you're special? Sure, no problem. Tell me to jump, I won't even ask how high, I'll jump as high as I can before you even finish that sentence.
But how about when I have to tell you you're not so special after all? What if I can't promise to be there for you, because I do have to be at work right now and my boss won't let me off to help you? What if the advice you need to hear is not the advice you want to hear, the advice you have been overbearingly been told by everyone and you just don't want to hear it from me, please, but I've got to tell you anyway because you aren't listening. What if all I have to offer are smiles and hugs but nothing much more to change the reality of everything?
What happens when what I have to tell you might make you despise me?
Do I have enough love to bear your hate?
But how about when I have to tell you you're not so special after all? What if I can't promise to be there for you, because I do have to be at work right now and my boss won't let me off to help you? What if the advice you need to hear is not the advice you want to hear, the advice you have been overbearingly been told by everyone and you just don't want to hear it from me, please, but I've got to tell you anyway because you aren't listening. What if all I have to offer are smiles and hugs but nothing much more to change the reality of everything?
What happens when what I have to tell you might make you despise me?
Do I have enough love to bear your hate?
"There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love."1 John 4:18
F.Y.I. This is written to no one in particular, so don't ask me if I have a BF or anything.
Seriously people, there is more love out there than just romantic love.
Seriously people, there is more love out there than just romantic love.
1 comment:
teehee BF? LIKE BEST FRIENDS (FOREVER)?? :)
maybe, just maybe, those individuals just haven't the realization within themselves to appreciate what you have to say, nor the capacity to place themselves in your shoes and understand why you're not able to cater to their every whim and need. But in the long run, hopefully they (and you) see that all your efforts had an impact. I'm sure it's frustrating now, I definitely know the feeling, but don't allow their immaturity to get to you. They haven't grown as much as you have and sometimes we just have to let that go. I think it's better not to have perfect love, at least for now. It makes us appreciate love more and to realize that real love is one that need not have reward or acknowledgment. It may not be biologically or socially beneficial, but in the end it's an external expression of ourselves.
and those who count will understand and give that love back.
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