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I Will Always Believe In Love

Jul 22, 2015

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You fall off a bike, and you get back up and try again. You get a math problem wrong, so you restart and hope to get it right the next time. You cut your finger while making dinner, and you put a bandaid then continue about your business. Why should love be any different? Broken heart after broken heart, I will always believe in love.

Love, to me, is more than just something you say. It’s something that consumes you and it’s the way of your life. It’s being able to look at someone and get butterflies every time. It’s when you see his smile, and your world is a little better. Love is a sweet, precious thing, not something you can just give up on.

Some people will tell you that love is not for them, and that’s something I’ll never understand. How could you just not want someone who will always be there? How could you not want to go to sleep and wake up next to the same person? Why would you not want someone who is constantly pursuing you? I think the problem is not that people aren’t made for love, it’s that they don’t know what love is because our generation doesn’t know how to love.

Love isn’t demanding him to buy you whatever you want. Love isn’t making eye contact from across the bar, and him buying you a shot (although I’m not complaining). Love is knowing that whatever wrong you do, he will love you regardless. Love is every day, striving to be a better person because of him. And love is each other's goals is to make the other happy.

I want a love like my grandparents. They’ve been married for 51 years; I swear every time I see them, they’re more in love than the last time. They’ve grown old together. My Jama supported, loved, and prayed for my Pop while he was at war. My Pop took care of my Jama before and after her heart surgery, when we weren’t sure she was even going to make it. They’ve made it through the good and bad together, and still find ways to love each other, regardless.

Love won't always be dandelions and daisies. Every now and then, you'll have somethings to weed out. But love doesn’t have a switch; you can’t just turn it off when you don’t want it. Love is something that takes you by surprise and doesn’t let you go. I will not give up on love.

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