Spontaneous Love Rant

     This started as a Tumblr post in response to someone, but it turned out really awesome in my humble opinion so I decided to post it on my real blog. Enjoy guys.
     I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how stuff people say can stick with you and change your life. I’ve been upset and grieving over the people I’ve lost, who’ve turned on me or dropped out of my life for no apparent reason after finding out my greatest insecurities and using them against me. I’ve hated myself for loving too deeply, too often, before I’ve even figured out if the person on the receiving end deserves it at all. I was ready to give up on love itself because I was tired of being hurt.
     I met this really great guy at school, and we were talking the other day, and this is what he told me: “People may come and go, but love remains. Even if the faces are different, you will always be loved to the measure you love.”
     People may come and go, but love remains. Love is just how God works through other people. Sometimes the particular carrier of love doesn’t work out, and God finds a new one, but the love is still out there somewhere floating about. There is always someone out there, someone like me, someone like you probably are if you’re still reading and relating to this, who is just waiting to love you. Someone who is bursting with excitement to know you and share in you and make you feel loved, and willing to let you love them in return.
     This doesn’t justify what people do to others. It doesn’t make it okay for people to use other people or be randomly mean or tear down the things about ourselves we’ve worked so hard and been so proud to build up. But this is the other smart thing he said. “You get hurt because you love…but that’s no reason to stop.” I suppose it’s something anyone could have said, but it struck me at that moment how incredibly right he was. Getting hurt isn’t a reason to stop loving. It might be a reason to protect yourself from a certain negative influence, but there is never a reason to stop loving. God is love, love is God, and I don’t know about you but I never want to give up on either. I want to keep loving somehow, somewhere, anyone. I can’t just turn it off. Love is bursting out of me and I need to pass it on.
     So I’ll search for the next face. I’ll find the next person who is going to receive my love, who is willing to let me in, even a tiny crack, to share all these beautiful feelings I have right now. Pain is always going to be there. Hurt is always going to be there. So if you’re going to end up hurt anyway, what better mechanism than one that can turn around and mend the wounds right away? Whether you have love to give, or feel like you could stand to be on the receiving end, I urge you to let yourself be open and participate in this most wonderful part of life.
     Keep loving.<3