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What is Love?
St. Augustine said it was an embodiment of compassion. It had the eyes to see the weary, the heart to hasten to the needy or something like that. I always held a deep distain for Love. It always fails. Nothing is permanent and nothing lasts forever. I just couldn’t see the logic in letting oneself get wrapped up in feelings only to be torn down at a later date. People say it’s not the fall that hurts, it’s the landing. But I can assure you, falling hurts just as much. I’ve never had experience with love, but I know what it’s like to fall.
I’m tired. I’m tired of falling. Of being accused, of being hurt, of being beaten. I’m tired of the years and years of pain, fear, anger, and guilt that have controlled my life and turned it into a mess of bullshit that would have been deemed to tragic for the likes of Shakespeare.
Then.....out of the blue, my best friend...became, dare I say, a little more? I tried to deny it in my head, I couldn’t bear the thought of ending up in a worse situation. I was on the verge of death, biding my time with a razor in one hand an a rope in the other. And I felt the strangest sensation. I can only hope to identify it as happiness. Perhaps it’s more akin to insanity, but who am I to say? I never felt that way about anyone before. Never ever ever. But those fleeting moments are almost too good to give up. I started to understand the tiniest amount, why people are willing to throw themselves into something only to have it fail. If I could feel this happy all the time, I’d do anything.
I also feel overwhelmingly pathetic....and scared shitless....as my inexperienced and lack of self-confidence cloud my mind, but that’s another story.
Right now, I’m lost, confused...yet for the first time in a really long time, I’m kinda happy.
And you, out there...you know I love you. Even if that word has only entered my vocabulary recently. I really do. And I think it’s kinda funny how your name reminds me of Tolkien