You’ve just met this amazing guy. He’s smart, funny, beautiful, and he also gets your weird sense of humor.
You have so much in common it’s crazy, from music to movies to how you both view life.
You just get each other. You’ve both opened up to each other about the past and everything in between. You’ve gotten really comfortable with him and you can’t see him as just a friend.
Yet, there’s this feeling in your gut that’s telling you to be wary because the last guy you gave your heart crushed it into a million pieces. And truthfully, a part of you is still getting over that but you’d never admit that.
Instead, you bottle it up. You convince yourself you’re ready to start something new and let this guy completely and truly into your world.
And with every text, every kiss, every phone call, you lose yourself in him. You find yourself loving him more than you realized you were capable.
And with that comes the fear that it’s not reciprocated, the fear that history is going to repeat itself and leave you broken.
Because you’re not the type who gives up on someone, you never have been. But this fear is overwhelming, it even keeps you up at night.
And…without even realizing it, you push him away.
You keep him at arm's length, re-guarding your heart all of a sudden when you had already let your walls down before.
You ran before you could even walk and you got someone else’s heart involved. It’s not that you don’t care about him because you really do.
In a short amount of time, you’ve allowed yourself to feel something again and that ultimately scares the hell out of you.
You figure it’d be easier to just slowly fade out of his life and to save face you slowly walk out of his life, texts grow scarce dates get rescheduled, promise become broken.
You feel that things are better off this way for the both of you. But is it really for the best? When you really think about it, how often does someone you connect with on so many levels enter your life?
How often do people come into your life that makes you lower your guard and make you feel safe? How often do you come across people that really and genuinely cares about you? Not very often.
It's human nature to be scared of many things in life, including love and commitment. Life is about taking risks and doing things that make us uncomfortable.
A lot of us go through life running away from risks and things that scare us and we all need to just stop being so afraid. So the next time there’s an amazing person that comes into your life, don’t run away.
Stop finding every single excuse of why you can’t be with someone. No matter how much it scares you, don’t let them go.