love has many forms.
I’ve realised I only focus on the most simplest form of it. Relationships. I yearn and pray to be loved by a boy who makes me feel seen and understood.
Yet doing this I disregard everything I already have.
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Today I get a text message from my long distance best friend. It’s her class work. I expect her to ask for help as it is a poem but as I read on and on I realise it’s about me. That feeling of knowing someone thinks about you and values your presence in their life is something every being should experience. To believe and feel this type of love is to be seen, to be,
understood.
We chase this known feeling, this standard feeling of love before realising love is all around you. Friendships, hobbies, places all hold the power of love dearly. Knowing every inch of that driveway, her smile lines as we laugh over nothing, the late August angst, the feeling of being alive for the first time in a long time. It is matter of time before that love becomes a memory. We devalue these simple things as everyday life without realising we are living through love and the love we provide. Everything out there will die. It’s all a matter of time.
Value the love around you.
