02.26.2003
i really think that i live for love. not so much for the attention and the feeling of being needed, but because it's just in my nature. i give my love easily. some say too easily. but that's okay. if you ask me what i want to be remembered for when i die. i would want people to remember that i loved. that i loved unconditionally. that i gave it freely, and that i gave it with all my heart. it's the one thing i'm very proud of about myself. i know that wherever life leads me, the people i meet along the way will remember my love because i took every opportunity to share it with them.
i would sacrifice my happiness for the chance to make someone else happy. do you think that's pathetic? to each his own. let me ask this. if a person came into your life and you knew he or she would hurt you and fully break your heart, would you still chance being with them? for me, i would. it's not a matter of setting myself up for getting hurt, but rather another opportunity to love someone and maybe be loved back. i want to give the person the chance to one day look back and know that, at one point in their life, they were once really loved. it's a chance to teach someone what love feels like in hopes that they'll share it, whether it's with me or someone else. if you've ever really been in love, or ever really felt love, how can you keep it to yourself? how can you not share it?
love is such an extraordinary and wonderful thing. it's intoxicating. it's undeniable. and it amazes me that so much people fear it. i would go through the worst just for the sparkle of someone's happiness and maybe even for their love in return. i admit, it's gotten me hurt sometimes, but more often than not, even that hurt doesn't compare to the happiness i've gotten along with it. maybe you think that i've never gotten badly hurt. believe me i have. but i'm not going to run away from another opportunity to be loved just because i was hurt once or twice or three times. time heals. and i can't be scared of the past any more than i can be scared of the future.
you know that feeling you get when you first fall in love with a person? i really believe that that's something to live for. something to look forward to. i don't think a person should hide something so special as their love. it's a great thing. i think that's the best part of being with someone. giving them your love. seeing how happy it makes them to receive it. the world is full of people wanting love but never ever giving it themselves. i believe that love is like a magnet. if you want love, than you have to attract it with your own love.
here are a few quotes to leave you with:
the proof that experience teaches us nothing is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.
- paul bourget
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love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get � only with what you are expecting to give � which is everything.
- katherine hepburn
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love like you've never been hurt.
- satchel paige
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no one is ever betrayed by true love.
- jaufrè rudel
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there is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
- george sands
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loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
- merle shan
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