Should we?
Of course being with someone who appreciates your small quirks is a major plus point. Cue lengthy paragraph about letting down walls and being your ‘true’ self. But it’s the notion that there is a True Love waiting for all of us out there that I take issue with. Some people — not all; but most — become obsessed with the idea that there is a Greater Good waiting for them, that they are deserving of better. And while that may be true in certain cases, who are we to assume we deserve anything? Because that seems a lil’ presumptuous, if you ask me.
And exactly how True has your True Love got to be before you decide okay this is the one for me, Imma settle down right now / plant my ass down here / give this fragile organ up for good yada yada. If he loves your small quirks? If he gets you breakfast in the pouring rain? If he reenacts cute movie scenes and cheesy love songs with impossibly trite lyrics play in your head?
What I’m trying to say is, there doesn’t need to be a True Love. It’s possible to have many great loves and eventually decide to settle down with the one whose odd shape fits yours best, who completes your thoughts before you even think them, who isn’t afraid to tell you off because they genuinely care — but it doesn’t mean any of the past 10 weren’t equally ‘true’ and good. If you loved good and hard in that moment, then there was not and never should be anything unReal or unTrue about it.
Aye?
(Source: fuckyeahquotestosavealife, via ofhipsandhearts)
