"So I'm picking up the pieces, now where to begin?
The hardest part of ending is starting again."
- Waiting for the End by Linkin Park
Love sucks.
Well, at times it is true, and you know it. We always try to paint the loveliest picture of roses, moonlight, and happily ever after... and sometimes, it just doesn't work.
Sometimes love isn't rosy, or moonlight-y, or happy. Sometimes, it just plain sucks.
And I'm not just referring to romantic love - this particular post encapsulates all the many different forms of love: friendly love, romantic love, brotherly love, family love... and so forth.
There are so many different ways of loving someone that it can drive you insane. The key to keeping your sanity is honesty.
Honesty speaks truth to us. Sometimes it tell us to shape up and act right, sometimes it tells others to shape up and act right. Listening closely to honesty can have rewarding results - your behavior alters, their behavior alters, lines of communication are restored, whatever. It's all well and good and happy ever after. Good for you.
Unfortunately, honesty can also break apart a relationship that's season has passed: the parent who can't reconcile with their child, the lovers who have grown apart, or the friend who wants more than the other.
You simply need the courage to hear the things you really don't want to. Those heartbreaking times when honesty tells us that, as much as we love the other person, we need to love ourselves and walk away.
It is times like those that love truly sucks. We plug our ears and go "Na na na na na" like we did when we were twelve, hoping honesty will shut up and go away.
But it doesn't matter. Whether we choose to hear or not, honesty speaks.
Are you listening?
Cheers,
MP
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