#7

On waiting for love.

My life has been short, I am not that old and wise yet, but I have learned quite a bit about love. A little through personal experience, but mainly through seeing others I know love. Some love and lose, some lose someone they might have loved and the lucky ones, they love each other forever. I think about that one constantly, always hoping I don't miss my chance or even worse always hoping I get a chance. My fear of never finding that love has made me create an unattainable goal in my head: find the perfect guy then you will find the perfect relationship and you will get the perfect life. That whole scenario is what I've been looking for.

But I have realized that kind of perfectness does not exist in a person. It exists in a connection, a relationship. That is what love is. Love is that person who isn't necessarily perfect, but it perfect for you.

They say real love comes when you aren't searching for it. I used to think that it was absurd to say that because most everyone is searching for love; and many do find it. But of all those people I know, who I've watched love, though it may not have lasted forever, I've realized one thing. They all loved. There isn't a person I know who could end their life saying they haven't loved. The moment I realized that was the moment I decided to stop searching. Therefore I am no longer searching for that perfect guy, for that perfect relationship, for that perfect life.

I've never been in true love. But I am waiting for it. No longer searching. Waiting, because I know it will come. And I now challenge you to do the same. Stop searching, you will have love in your life, I promise. Stop searching and wait patiently.