A concept: you are in a healthy and loving relationship with yourself, you no longer need other people’s validation.
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Love
To love a rose you dont touch it you smell it and enjoy the scent.
To love an angel you dont see them you speak and listen to what they say.
And to love a woman you dont control them you watch them grow and flourish.
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Don’t try to rush being in love. Let it come in its own time. Don’t try to force yourself to be in love just because you feel like you should be.
It can hurt you badly, in ways that may take years to recognize, to try to make yourself be in love. When you try to force it, you damage your connection with your true feelings. You might ignore red flags or force yourself to do things that seem right in the moment but will actually traumatize you.
And even if you “succeed” no person worth being around would ever want to experience “love” you had to force yourself to feel. Can you imagine how you’d feel if your partner had to trick their brain into loving you? The only kind of person who would be okay with that kind of relationship would be someone who had no care or respect for you as a person.
If you are lonely and craving connection, make more connections! Seek out new friendships, deepen existing ones by adding more time and conversation and shared experiences and truth.
But don’t be in a relationship that doesn’t feel good to you, and even if it feels good, don’t try to force yourself to feel anything you don’t, and don’t pretend to feel anything you don’t.
Emotional honesty can be scary, but real love doesn’t come from any other place. And you deserve real love, not a cheap imitation.
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Look at him go!!
the splashes from previous attempts…this is one dedicated boy
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If I’m able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.
-Hayao Miyazaki (x)
