For years, I believed that love was a person who appeared to me as some kind of magic, ready to make me happy no matter what circumstances I would be through. That this feeling was meant to last forever. And that the person was meant to stay.
When he left, I believed love had left too. I spent months thinking that no one was going to love me like he did, or not at all. Each other person that tried to walk my way, holding hands, just didn’t seem enough. I was partly scared of being undervaluing that person who really meant something to me by exchanging him for another.
When he left, I was scared of having lost a part of me, since he knew a huge part of me. But it turned out to be all fake. He didn’t know me. He didn’t know the ‘me’ of now. He knew broken shreds of the ‘me’ that I had been. And, truth is, I didn’t like that version of me. Then why would I want to be with someone who makes me who I am not anymore?
When he left, he got me thinking I was flawed. That it all went wrong because of my fault. He walked away from me with vague explanaitions which made no sense, and sounded of excuses. He found other lips to kiss and other bodies to put his hands on.
And when he came back, after searching the whole world for something else to make him feel like what we had, it didn’t matter anymore.
I finally understood that love wasn’t him anymore. That I had to search for love inside of myself, and then in others.
Because, in the end, all that we want is to love and to feel loved. It has to remain this simple.
Love is nihilistic, and we have to embrace it in all its shapes.