Love is blind

Why Is Love So Hard to Keep?

One morning, I woke up and admitted to myself that I was no longer in love. I felt that it would be a waste to continue. However, I had an invested history with this person, who deserved my respect and support. A cascading kaleidoscope of emotions welled in my eyes when I thought of what I was contemplating. I searched for the reasons for these feelings of dissatisfaction and discontent. Was I merely being childish or where they well founded? He and I worked well together and complimented each other nicely in public. However, it was our private life that stretched that bond. Times when the cameras stopped, so to speak. Our conversations were generic, the greetings routine. And our kisses were overdramatized and empty. It was at this point that my fears combated my reality.

Why is love so hard to keep? I think the answer lies in how you define love. The reason why it’s so hard to keep is simple: love is a constantly changing, always evolving, entity manifested by the moment. Each day, love takes on a new form and that same love is never repeated, only complimented. I learned that love is something that changes daily and, with each passing day, we must appreciate the newly found reasons for being in love, without expecting to relive what was. When we cling to the old things, we begin to hear negative dialogue such as, "You don’t do (blank) anymore."

We can never love the same as we did yesterday, nor should we try, just as we can never make love exactly the same way we did yesterday. Each day, we must appreciate what defines our mate and realize that development gives way to change. It was in these quiet moments that I understood why love is so hard to keep. Love is so hard to keep because one cannot keep and maintain something that grows with each passing day. I grasped that love must be shared, not loitered in.

Silly thoughts from a silly person.

However, it’s been eight years since that morning and he still snores like the devil.

I loved at 4:13 AM