Unrequited Love

I have found, almost everything ever written about love to be true. Shakespeare said, ‘journey’s end at lovers meeting.’ What a thought! Personally I haven’t experienced anything remotely close to that but I’m more than willing to believe that Shakespeare had.

I suppose I think about love more than anyone really should, I’m constantly amazed by its sheer power to alter and define our lives. It was Shakespeare who also said that love is blind, now that is something I know to be true.

 For some, quite inexplicably, love fades. For others, some is simply lost. But then of course love can also be found, even if just for the night. And then there’s another kind of love, the cruellest kind, the one that almost kills it’s victims, it’s called unrequited love. Of that, I am an expert.

Most love stories are about people who fall in love with each other, but what about the rest of us? What about our stories? Those of us who fall in love, alone. We are the victims of the one sided affair. We are the cursed of the loved ones, we’re the unloved ones, and the walking wounded. We’re left to wait, wondering if he/she will ever love us back and most of the time, the answer is no.

Now, I’ve thought about what I’m going to say in this post and what I’m going to say, is to simply give up. I know that doesn’t sound like very good advice but, take it from someone who’s experienced this. Think about it though, what is the point in waiting for something that will never happen? This person that you are in love with, who doesn’t love you back obviously doesn’t want to be with you. If they did, do you really think you would be sat there, waiting for them to feel the same way? Nope, you would be with them already.

This has got to be the oldest saying in the book but it’s true, there really are plenty more fish in the sea. So my advice to those who actually know what I’m talking about, is to let go of that person you can’t stop thinking about, who doesn’t love you back and focus on something else in your life. I’m sure you don’t really want to be stuck going through life with that one person in your head who you aren’t with, and never will be, waiting for them to finally see that you’re meant to be together. If things are meant to happen between you, then they will. You can’t wait around for that to happen though; you’ve got to move on.

There will be someone out there for you, I promise that, and you will find that one person who you’re meant to be with, but you’re not going to find them if you’re still hooked on some other guy/girl. No-one was there to give me this advice, but I sat down and thought about the situation I was in and this has all helped me, so now I want to help others who are in this situation also. So think about what I’ve said and it might just help :)