i saw this the other day:

and thought, yes!  finally someone is telling the truth.
about love, and how hard it can be.

how it isn't always full; with giggles and sparkly eyes, and dreams.

and then i thought that love is really more of a process.  it has stages, and it runs in these highs and lows.  it makes you stronger, and weaker.  in all good ways that will mold you into a more well rounded person.  it exercises your heart, and when you can't think you can love this person for one more minute, you choose to.  and bam.  stronger.

it allows you to see "ugly"  and say, even then, i will love you.

and even though....
even though i feel like my dreams have been put on hold.

even though my nights are restless with the very fact that tomorrow will be the same as today and yesterday was.

even though, my heart aches for closure with previous loved ones.

even though my "what if's" are clear, and loud, and not so easy to ignore.

and still i will choose to love you, choose to be a good listener, and choose to lift you up on my weak wings, because i have hope in love.  hope that through the weakness's we have will  birth something stronger, and more resilient.

and hope that every something that is ugly, will be molded, and sculpted into the new.

because when has anything been easy and beautiful at the same time?  i can think of so many things that have been hard, and long..... that birth the beautiful, the lasting.  and this is what i need to hold onto, so tight.

☮