The Love Fix

Perhaps nothing is more conducive to good health than establishing real and strong emotional bonds. Perhaps nothing provides us with more emotional balance and equips us better to overcome life’s crises than finding warmth and comfort in the arms of loved ones. Perhaps, there is nothing more important than building connections, leaving a bit of our story, a bit of ourselves wherever we go, and taking a bit of others with us.

We are a mosaic of everything we experience, feel, think, and go through. Just as the more we read, study, travel, learn, and have unusual experiences, we become people with larger baggage, we also become more interesting as we establish emotional relationships.

True emotional relationships (not merely social ones) provide us with a sense of security and belonging. If we don’t feel like we belong anywhere or need to constantly frequent an environment where we feel like an extra or a stranger, we start to get sad, we start to feel the effects of our lack of belonging through our physical health.

Yes, it is not always possible to connect with people. Not everyone opens up to us. Many people limit themselves to being polite and we cannot go beyond social politeness. There are also those who pretend to like us to avoid conflict, but who do not fill our hunger for love because deep down they do not give us their hearts.

There are also those who may even like us, but cannot understand our deepest and most delicate needs and feelings, who cannot see that they are hurting us and making us suffer through seemingly silly and unimportant gestures, through connections with people who have hurt us brutally and caused us practically unbearable suffering. Yes, it is difficult to fully open our hearts to someone who says they love us, but who also loves our worst enemy.

On the other hand, disappointments and lack of connection with some people should not be an excuse to close ourselves off and isolate ourselves. The stunted love offered by some people should not steal our faith in love, full friendships, and deep connections.

If we feel that we are not receiving the unconditional love and friendship we deserve, we should not resent it but continue to search in the crowd for people who really feel the need to connect with us in the deepest possible way.

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This post was previously published on medium.com.

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