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“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it, to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once!” Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood
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i think this feeling is so human. as much as i try to think that i want to just live alone, and only have the love for my friends and family, i know deep down thats not entirely true. i hadn’t found any solace in this idea until i stopped fighting that denial. embrace that it isn’t today but it also isn’t never! use that longing to fuel your passions, realize the yearning is a good thing, you want to love, you have so much potential to love.
Jan 5, 2025
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I’m not a poet, so here are some people that put it into much better words:
“To fall in love is to create a religion with a fallible god” Jorge luis borges
“Falling in love is like being haunted”— Han Kang
“Love is as love dies. Love is an act of will— namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to.” —Erich fromm
Mar 3, 2025
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On one hand: it just flows. You can't get enough of them. Your eyes, their eyes—could be the only thing that matters in the whole world. Their voice hits you like electricity. When alone, you wonder why you aren't with them. Mundane things, at their side, become adventures. You occupy your own universe that is a secret from all others.
And on the other hand: it is a labor. Your beloved, who stirs and ignites your affection so much, is also the one who most exposes your pride and weaknesses. As you dive into them and truly know them, you discover they are broken and selfish and human. And they discover that about you. The easy slide down the snowy hill of excitement becomes a long drag back up the other side.
But then the two of you put those parts together: combine the thrill and the sparkle with the messiness and the suffering. Your together love becomes something deeper and more enduring. You say: I see you fully but I choose you still, with all my heart and soul.
It becomes something that will withstand any storms that may come, something more mature and tested:
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." —Antoine de Saint-Exupery:
Mar 1, 2025
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How did we stop choosing for ourselves and just accept whatever comes our way?
Past Lives made me think about this.Was it fate, comfort, or just the right and wrong timing? At some point, we stop reaching and just let life happen!!! The movie lingers in that space between longing, acceptance, and what could have been…
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“If you want to know how poor somebody was growing up, ask them how many windows they had. Don’t ask what was in their fridge or in their closet. The number of windows says it all. It says everything. If they had none, or maybe one or two, that’s all you need to know.”
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