you do not need to be understood in order to be loved

 

This is wacky shit isn't it? Why do we seek to be understood or loved at all? Do we need to first be loved by ourselves? Do you love yourself? Do you live each day to it's fullest? I know I'm guilty of not appreciating everything around me. Somedays your purpose could just be to treat yourself. Somedays it could be to care for others, or even help those in need.

If you're reading this, know you ARE, in fact, loved. You are important, and each of you have impacted my life, just as I have yours. Even if you only read this once, or if you come back to it again. 

Remembering someone doesn’t always have to hurt, even if they never come back into your life. You can be grateful that, for a while, even if it was only for a short time, that person made you genuinely happy.

Maybe some memories are meant to stay with us, not because we should hold on to the past, but because we were lucky enough to experience being loved, understood, and truly happy with someone. And even if that person is no longer a part of our lives, what we shared was real, and that alone can be something worth being grateful for.

I hold it true, whate'er befall;

I feel it, when I sorrow most;

 ‘Tis better to have loved and lost

Than never to have loved at all.

-In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1850