You cannot live your life in a constant battle to prove to someone that you’re worth having around. You’ve also got to understand that you can’t make someone want you or love you. That’s a truth that they’ve got to discover all on their own. Now, I know that the emotion and the depth of caring for someone can be so overwhelming that it literally feels painful just to harbor it in your guts, in your heart, in your lungs, in everything. But it can be good. It doesn’t have to hurt. You just have to remember how to take it and give it in ways that make your life better instead of worse. You have to help each other hold it so that it doesn’t crush you. You have to accept that it doesn’t always come in the forms that you’d prefer and that it’s not always here to stay. Sure. Sometimes people aren’t who you think they are. Sometimes you don’t get the answers that you’re looking for. Sometimes you aren’t treated fairly or respectfully. Sometimes they don’t love you back, and sometimes it hurts so bad that you think you won’t recover. Let me remind you of this, though: you still have your smile and your wit. You still have your family and you still have your Jesus. You still have your strong, disciplined, sometimes shaking hands that you’ve trained to dress yourself with confidence every day. Sometimes that’s all you need to make it through. He is not your be all and end all. Love is not subject to one individual. You are your own person; free to discover the entire universe. You cannot solely make homes of the people that you adore and neglect the one that made you who you are.
Your home is your heart — brave and stable and full of tomorrows.