“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
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.
who am i if i cannot feel the swell in my chest every time im immersed deep within an untouched forest? the day i stop loving is the day i am lost to myself there is so much to love, if you cannot feel love then you have stopped looking and need to redefine what you believe it means to be in love
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
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…