Love Stays...

Today morning, I woke up to a lovely message from a dear friend. It was a forward but simply reading it inspired me so much that I needed to just start typing straight away. The hopeful romantic that I am, I always tried to live by the Bible verse of - "Love is patient. Love is kind...". But who am I lying to. That's not what I feel. Not at all. So I came up with my own definition today. It's the most honest explanation of love that I could have ever come up for myself with. See if it resonates with you too. 

Maybe love is impatient. Maybe love is not kind on the days they are hurting. Maybe love does envy with every cell of their being when they see someone more attractive and appealing to their partner. Maybe love does boast about them to their parents just to see if they agree with her that he is nice for her (highly improbable though). Maybe love is proud on the days when she sees them achieve their dreams and she jumps with joy for them in their happiness. 

Maybe love is rude on the days when she is having a shitty day at work or is PMSing. Maybe love is self-seeking after all because she is just trying to protect herself from getting hurt. Maybe love does get easily angered because it feels that she does not have to pretend to hold it together at all times because she is her true unapologetic human self with them. 

Maybe love does keep a record of all the wrongs only to laugh at them over a cup of coffee saying " Remember the time I left you cause you were being a jerk and now you're so much better. See, good thing I left when I did! I made you a better person :P". Maybe love does delight in evil. Let's just say we both love Lucifer and we can't wait for the next season! Maybe love doesn't always rejoice with the truth when he says - "You don't look so good in this dress. Go wear something else". 

Maybe love just tries to protect the hearts but gives up when there is no more fight left in it. Maybe love doesn't trust so easy because of the previous scars. Maybe love feels hopeless on the days when it is dealing with anxiety and nothing around her makes sense. Maybe love doesn't always persevere because sometimes it wishes to be fought for. 

Maybe love does fail on a few days, only to get up and fight the next time.

But all in all, love is constant. Love stays. Even if it has a million reasons to leave, it simply finds one to stay and holds on to it. Love does take breaks, only to find its way back again.

I think I'm going to stick to this definition of love for some more time till someone proves me otherwise :) 

Love,

Aaliyah

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