We live in a world filled with contradictory messages, constantly telling us to fight for the people that we love or to never give up on them, until we get hurt by those people. And then we see messages to just fight for the people in your corner, don’t just fight for the people you love but for the people that love you. It’s a world full of all these mixed messages that contradict each other. “love without expecting to be loved”, “do things out of kindness, not out of the favor being returned”, but we are are emotional beings and that’s not how life works. Because the truth is we do want to be loved the same way that we love people and we do expect love and respect to be returned. The problem is we put all our focus on people that don’t always give what they get. It’s exhausting.
Some of our our biggest life lessons is learning that we are all different. We love people the way we want to be loved, we show people how to love us. And when they don’t show us the same love back, we think we should wait for them to figure it out or to learn. We blatantly ignore the truth because of what we want. But. Maybe what we want isn’t what we should have. We know how we need to be loved. But we need to learn to know when to walk away, when the love isn’t reciprocated, when it’s not what we need. And sometimes what we want contradicts what we need.
Humans are funny like that.
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