A love story ...

If you love someone, and you are loved back.. that is a love story, right?
If you love someone, and you are loved back.. and you live happily ever after.. that is definitely a love story - especially if you add twists and turns on the way, yeah?
How about, if you love someone, you are loved back, but things do not work out.. isn't that a sort of a love story as well?

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My entry on January 27 describes how I made an attempt to tie up loose emotive ends through writing. I felt that the written form would allow for the information to be passed unpolluted, and unobstructed, to the recipient of the important document - a person who I love so dearly words prove handicapped to express it. The document was to leave no room for confusion, the message directly from the heart.
The recipient's reaction has proven beyond any doubt the legitimacy of my intuitive decision.
What a relief.

To be made conscious of how much you mean to someone that matters dearly to you, is a feeling so good that nothing completely compares to it.. We want to matter to those that matter to us. At least I do! .. Not that it changes anything about the way I feel about someone, whether I matter to them or not.. but mattering is a matter that matters, if you know what I mean.

In good friendships we tend to maybe take the fact that we matter to our friend/s for granted.. it is good to have friendships where the feeling seems so assured that you can relax about it.. but of course we need to stay on our toes from time to time, and make sure that we do send the message out that our friends matter to us. That we appreciate them, and are thankful for them. And getting the message back is wonderful as well...
Now, when it comes to serious relationships things get trickier. My perception is that in love relationships you get so close to a person, mentally and physically, that the line between feeling loved and feeling under appreciated starts to dissolve. It is hard to understand why this has to happen. Even while things are going fine, any little seed of doubt can easily take on monstrous forms.. complete trust, and utter distrust, start to be two sides of the same coin.
Then, when love relationships end it seems all too easy for people to stray, from such closeness of heart, to avoidance and uncomfortable relations.
The line is that thin.
People that have mattered the world to each other, can end up hating each other.
Why? Is it a simple formula: Love => Vulnerability <= Hate .. ? In the sphere of vulnerability, one extreme end of the pole directly merges with the other.. ?

These are just thoughts.. as this does not apply to every occasion. But it is so easy to start harbouring doubts about what you mean to someone that you used to mean the world to, and means the world to you.

My love story has a happier ending.. that was made clear to me today.
It seems you can love someone, and be loved back.. but have to part anyway.

Loving someone may not necessarily have to only work in intimate circumstances. Loving someone from afar, or in separation, is also a part of life's drama. And that type of love can also work mutually.

Life.. it is truly amazing. How can we possibly comprehend it fully.

Vulnerably,
..kH