Love is addictive. Love is potent. Love makes your heart tap dance. Love is not logical and is not straight forward. Love is a wonderful feeling. But love also hurts.

            Love hurts when you love someone you can never have. Love hurts when love betrays you. Love hurts when love left you. Love hurts when love is broken. Love hurts when love dies.

When love hurts, you tried to ease your pain by wiping out your memories of love. You let yourself feel the pain so you could let go of love and you cry uncontrollably whenever you feel the pain. Getting over love needs time and patience. Your memories of love are like a story of love that you have been engraved inside your mind. Your story of love is thick as a novel. It hurts to throw away your love story and all the good memories of love.

You try many ways to eradicate love completely from your mind. You make your life busy so you have no time to think about love. The harder you try to stay away from love, you find yourself come back to places where you used to spend time together. The more you try to forget about love, the more you think about love.

            Everywhere you go, all you see is the face of love that you want to forget. Looking at people walking on the street, they have love’s face and love’s great smile. Trying to watch a movie, you see love as the main character. Listening to music, you hear love’s voice. Light breeze touching your face, you remembered love’s gentle kiss. Raindrops on your skin, you felt love’s touch. At times, you could smell love’s sweet breaths. You see love’s shadow whenever you open your eyes. How could you forget love when you have known love all your life?

Thinking about broken love every single day is hard to bear. The condition would be the same as having a bad hair cut where your hair is too short to fix. Having a bad hair cut is not even your fault but you are the one that has to suffer. You always have free choices: shave your head completely, wear a wig or put on hair extension, or last but not least, patiently wait for your hair to grow back. Same for love, you also do have free choices.

If you get hurt by love, what you need to do is to keep your mind off love and don’t drill on the love that had already gone. When there is damage to love, don’t attempt to repair it because the residual scars will remain. When love wishes to leave you, you should let love go. When love gets old and dies, you should bury it. Don’t let lost love depress you. You just have to wait patiently for time to heal the wound. Time will not make your suffering disappear but time will make your pain and suffering fade away one day at a time.

By looking at your bad hair cut in the mirror constantly doesn’t make your hair grow any faster. In the same token, hanging on to the past doesn’t make love return to you.