What I Think I've Learned

[maki_thinger]

I recently took off a necklace that I've been wearing since the day I bought it well over two years ago. It had a symbol of two people embracing, those people supposing to be Psyche and Eros. This charm was meant to symbolize soul mates and I never took it off because I believed whole-heartedly in it. I believed that one day I would meet my soul

Comments

[shamusoddish]

this is unfortunate. however given this location not unexpected. true romance is hard to find here in PSL. all i have ever seen here is countless relationships fucked up by one person or the other and leaving the other person in their life bitter.

as i have said before you are young. you made mistakes. you trusted someone who you have realized wasnt "the one". can you honestly say that for the rest of your life you will never believe in true love? there are reasons those stories were writen...and countless more told and retold. hell go back and read Dracula. people can feel the way that you have imagined...its just that in todays world romantics are few and far between. ive known a few and they have began to give up hope as well but as long as stories are still be writen and music composed about true love there has to be a place somewhere for it.

[maki_thinger]

There's not a place for it in this world anymore. There was once a time for those romances but those stories still exist to make us feel better and because they're classics. Fiction is written so we can escape from the harshness of reality. They're not written for us to believe they're real. If we believed in those stories, we'd be no better than those little kids writing to Professor Dumbledore begging to get into a school and be exposed to a world that doesn't exist.

[cowkitty]

I felt exactly like you once. I almost married the "love of my life"-- He treated me horribly and cheated on me, and I would always beg him to stay. We were together for 7.5 years, and then I finally realized I deserved better than him.

I tried dating, and found others I loved, but found more heartache. I truly began to believe that there was no "forever", no soul mates, no "true love".

And then by random chance, I found Phil. He was as disillusioned as I was, until we found each other. Love at first type. Then love at first sight. And by the end of our first date, we both knew, and both believed again.

It's been almost a year now, and I've never been happier. All the "true love" I've experienced is nothing compared to this.

I know things are hard right now, but don't give up. It'll come eventually.