You love someone with actions: you
give them things to make their life easier, better, more full, happier. When
they fall asleep on your shoulder, you shift to make them more comfortable, to
see them stir in their sleep like a small animal – you smile at how sweet they
look, you marvel at how corny you feel and how okay with it you are.
You love someone by doing nothing,
but not moving at all, not even an inch. When their head rests on your
shoulder, when they lay in your lap, collapsed – you remain still, unchanging.
Steadfast. There.
You love someone with “I’m there for
you”-s made real. You love someone by answering, even in the smallest ways:
“okay, see you soon.”
You love someone all tacit and silent
– without replies and responses, with nothing at all – you love someone even
when you have nothing. You say that this is all you have, you love them with
honesty and respect, enough to tell them when you can’t love them, enough to
tell them when you’re spent, exhausted, burn out, gone.
You love someone with touch, with
your lips on their forehead, blessings going both ways, the way you want to
feel. Taken care of and caring, a hand on their shoulder, a sure shoulder on
your unsteady hand.
You love someone with logic, with plans
and knowing what’s best for them and plans falling apart and realizing that you
can’t always know best, that you won’t, that you don’t, that they’re a person
and that is all they are.
You love a person, not a someone. You
love someone by seeing their humanity over and over again: the way they look
waking up, the way their skin peels with a sunburn, the way they get mean when
they are jealous. The way they look, the way they are – a person, not a
constant.
-thought catalog
God Bless Us..
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