Unrequited Love

I am a person of quiet (ok not so quiet, rather noisy infact) confidence so it is very rare that I ever encountered unrequited love for I usually am rather sure before I go forward into liking someone.  Recently though, this phenomenal was bestowed unto me and I was broken hearted for nearly a month now. 

 

 

As the saying goes “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves”. ~ Federico García Lorca.

I honestly don’t know why we punished ourselves this way.  So let’s digress from my experience for a while (of course we will eventually come back to me as I am narcissistic like that).  I find that unrequited love (as Shakespearean as it sounded) is, very simply put, falling for someone who doesn’t like us back, or the person never knew, or the person is attached etc etc.  Such a feeling is something that most of us had been through.  Falling for the “right” person at a very “wrong” time.  Shakespeare dubbed it the most tragic thing of his time, sadly it is perhaps one of the most tragic things of our times too, some idiots would even commit suicide over it (uh huh, idiots!).  I have my fair share of rejection (that is me rejecting people, yep back to me).  I now wonder how  such people felt about unrequited love, are they suffering as I do?  If so, I am sorry.  

Love, like being unhealthy, cannot be forced. (see that? I just equated love to being unhealthy lol).  I held no anger nor expectations towards my object of affection.  Healing, and the process that goes with it, needs time and patience.  Despite my flaws (narcissism being one) I have patience.  I can handle my pain in silence, let it ride through the wings of time and perhaps, just perhaps, it will eventually get better.  Things always do get better, I strongly believed in that.  So for all the broken hearted souls, understand that we are but one of the millions of broken hearted souls out there.  We all have people who loved us, understood us, being patient with us, don’t lose them over one tree when you know the forest is there standing.  I applaud us for feeling better tomorrow, if not tomorrow, the day after.