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Love Should Not Be An Obligation

My warning to you. My advice to you. My concern for you. My fleeting love to you.

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When we have someone regardless of our relations towards them we love them because we want to, we love them because of who they are, we love them because they love us. When you love someone you care more about them, you are concerned about them, you worry for them. When you love someone you reach out to them, you seek them out and they seek you out. Loving someone means that you care about their feelings and that you would never wish to harm them. It means everything, it changes people's lives, it can build them.

It is an emotion created and built on. It is a single thought that contains so much power. It is accepted in our heart's. Yet many are very forgetful in regards to it. They forget love needs to be cherished, they forget when someone loves you, you shouldn't forget them. When someone loves you, you do not take it for granted. Caring for someone is not a one-way street, it takes two to create a bond, it takes two to make it grow. There are strangers who we meet in our lives, that we accept in our lives and we create a bond with them that later on our feelings for them begins to bloom. There are those who are already in our lives that may also forget this. So many people can become ignorant, or they think it can stay on its own. Love sometimes is not always everlasting, love can be so infinite that it also can become fleeting. One's feelings are so powerful that it can also destroy someone.

My warning to you. My advice to you. My concern for you. My fleeting love to you.

Do not love me because you think you should.

Do not love me, but question my love for you.

Do not love me because you are supposed to.

Do not love me then forget me.

Do not accept my love and take it for granted.

When I love you it is with my entire being.

I give you my attention not because I should but because I want to.

I love you for you. I care for you and do not wish to be forgotten. Yet if that were to happen, I hope nothing but the best for you. A sweet strawberry can turn so bitter. A bond so full of life can leave quietly in the night. Do not become blind when the person who loved you dearly can no longer hold love for you.

Love is no obligation, but it is a choice.


It will be my choice whether to love you or to forget you.

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