Love is not a word that should be thrown around. Because saying that you love someone is vastly different from saying all the things that the word really means.
Like how you worry about them constantly. How you always want what's best for them. How you could not imagine your life and your world without out them.
But of course, you never say any of that.
What you say is that love is overrated and outdated and how you won't ever fall in love again because the last time that you tried that, it failed.
But you know, trying something and having it not work out is not the end of the world because all that it means is that the person wasn't right for you.
It doesn't mean that every person you date will hurt in the same way.
Because if you close yourself off to love totally and completly, it becomes more of you being lonely. Night after night because you let someone really good walk out of your life.
And why?
Because you were scared?
Because you don't know if you even know how to love anymore because of your past, the things and the people that broke your heart over and over again.
Heart break happens. But you know what else happens?
Healing. The heart does heal and it takes time and a lot of trying, but once you are whole again, rather than protecting yourself from every person that could be a mistake, you need to learn to embrace yourself, imperfections and all.
Because when you say that you love someone, it's beautiful and pure and honest. It does make you weak or dependant, it makes you more like a superhuman because you have fallen.
And you have gotten back up.
So back out there and fall in love with everything and everyone because when it's right you know it. And nothing can ever compare.
