An unattainable love?

If they don’t love you, why persist? If they love you, how could it be unrequited? Some say the essence of unrequited love is self-indulgent obsession.

Often, we dress up our fixation on a particular outcome and our desire for possession as “love.” And when that desire remains unfulfilled, it breeds resentment and regret—a profound cognitive sorrow. That is not love.

What is called “love,” if given only to receive, and if one cannot let go when it remains unfulfilled, turns into an obsession. Speaking of “love” while the heart only contemplates possession—such “love” is destined for suffering.

True love is not the beautification of one’s own desires in ignorance; it is the process of giving for the sake of the other person (or thing) becoming better.

In love, the saddest thing is not “loving without return,” but losing the capacity to love thereafter. The most fortunate thing in love is also not “loving without return,” but “later meeting someone better.”

Where there is joy in the heart, there is no need to chase in haste; amidst the world’s clamor, there is no need to care excessively. Life is long, and we journey through the dust. The beauty in this world stretches far beyond the fleeting gains and losses before us.

Obsession takes root in the shadows, cloaked in love’s guise, Unblossomed desires bear a bitter, sour fruit. We often mistake possession for nourishment, Then blame the flower for refusing to bloom for us.

Moonlight does not linger for the poet’s longing, The sea breeze does not change course for the fisherman’s hope. True love is giving the bird the entire sky, Not locking it in a gilded cage.

The deepest regret is not that the rose has thorns, But that you henceforth refuse all gardens. The greatest fortune is precisely the missed connection, Allowing you to see the whole starry sky waiting.

At time’s waystation, Some rush to put a price on love, Others quietly mend their own fences. And Eternity whispers from the clouds: “See how the seasons turn— Have they ever demanded a result from spring?”