Love

What really is love?

As humans we have this outstanding ability to fall madly and deeply in love with total strangers or close friends. There is something so beautiful about being able to completely give yourself to another person and have them do the same to you. Because after all there truly is no greater feeling than loving and being loved in return.

But love also has an inexplicably cruel side; as Maya Angelou once said "love by nature, exacts a pain." When you're in love, that person has the power to fuel your thirst for life and adventure or they have the ability to completely year you down and never look back. 

Love is everywhere. No matter where you look you will see happy couples, friends and families that are living in a state of total serenity. We can never escape it. 

But what do you do when the person who once gave you a feeling of euphoria and total bliss now only leaves you with hurt and emptiness? We rise up. No matter what they do to you, we always stand above them. We cannot ever allow ourselves to be defeated by people who can leave us feeling so deflated. Even though we feel like our lives are over and the one we loved the most never loved us, we must remember that we will love again. We learn from every breakup and we stand higher than ever before when we recover. 

There truly is no greater feeling in the world than being in love. But there is also no worse form of torture than heartbreak.