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Maybe there is not a lack of good men for women or good women for men, but a lack of people falling for those who are meant to catch their hearts. Somewhat like the good in this world, the lack of it is easily discovered by the eye; yet, where it lies in abundance isn’t given enough credit.
Do you care about what’s on his mind, or are you digging out of him reasons you should be on it? Do you care about his happiness, or do you only care to search for your happiness inside of him? Do you even care about his life, or are you making sure that you become his world and begging him to live as if you’re the only thing in his universe? How can you want to always be on his mind, want him to make you happy and only care for a life with you, when you barely care enough about his existence without you?
He was not made to become the living definition of a ‘real man’ that you’ve extracted from memes, tasted from bitter tongues, and plastered on the walls of your mind because it fits into everything your ex never was. He is not trying to become ‘real’ in the eyes of a generation who cannot separate truth from emotions, and experience from reality. He was created to be authentic to genuine hearts, caring to loving souls, and bear greatness into this world. His being was knitted with integrity a...
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If his kisses taste everything like honesty, it does no good to speak dishonestly of him simply because all you’ve known of men is the dishonesty they’ve poured into your ears. A man cannot be unworthy of trust simply because men who looked like him walked into your life and slowly devoured yours.
He is weak for you, but that does not mean he is weak. He is strong for himself but that does not mean it is his burden to forever be the strength for both of you.
Love isn’t always the easiest thing to harvest. If this truth has settled in your veins already, you must not act blind to the contradictions that are swirling in your breath when you’ve grown angry at him for not falling in love with you on your timing. You can’t just shake a growing tree saying, “I am a good woman so love me,” and expect fruits of love to just fall. How many seasons did your love have to endure before it bore a harvest?
If I cannot be cherished by you, I will not become a burden, I will become a lost treasure. If I cannot be a blessing to you, I will not become a curse. I will become absent.
