I am grateful for when a man recognized I was very much interested in him but was patient enough to let me grow in my appreciation for him in my own manner. He saw things in me before I saw them in myself and he was patient as I came to my own conclusions about just how deep my feelings were for him.
It was beautiful to be motivated by love instead of pressure.
It was beautiful to be understood and listened to even when I never said a word.
It was beautiful that my feelings were so strongly considered alongside his own feelings.
Life can be so demanding. So unapologetic in the manner that circumstances ask more of you than you can give. Everything is so fast so continually. To know someone who can breathe not only within himself but on your behalf is such an incredible gift.
Sometimes it can be difficult to focus on the gift instead of on the uncertainty of when such a gift will be experienced again. I think at least part of the answer is gratefulness. Don’t be part of the pressures and anxieties that tell you the worst outlook.
Allow yourself to feel the joy and gratitude of gifts you have received even if the gifts did not continue in the way you hoped. Appreciate the lessons you learned in how to love and in how to communicate that love better. Life gave you a break in letting you know something so sweet and so heart changing – perhaps something so profoundly precious will come again. You’ve got this!
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