Wants

Tag: beloved

  • I [Ruth Mwanza] still want calm, consistency, and the feeling of love

    I [Ruth Mwanza] still want calm, consistency, and the feeling of love

    Keywords: Pretending to be poetic

    I don’t know whether this is what I want to write about love

    https://simplymwanza.wordpress.com/2022/11/11/i-still-want-calm-consistency-and-the-idea-or-feeling-that-summer-is-falling-in-love
  • I want to fall in love once again and this time, maybe Forever

    I want to fall in love once again and this time, maybe Forever

    Keywords: Life , musings , bloggerlife , Life Lessons , lovestory , Readergram , Women Writers , Writersgram

    When I was down with fever, I always thought, “What if I died alone in an apartment?” My soul kept screaming that, “You would die after hearing those magical words, never lose hope.” I want to trust my heart even though it was sedated that night. I want to be someone’s forever in this world full of “Maybe.” Love as magical as it sounds, can be my cause of loneliness. Love as joyful as it sounds, might break my strength. Maybe someday, someone would save my drowning soul. Maybe I get to hear my share of “I love you.” At the end of my story, there will always be a “Maybe.”

    https://nidhantrika07.wordpress.com/2022/01/18/maybe-forever
  • We love each other

    We love each other

    I myself have come up with a hypothesis. I did this more or less by myself — and of course if you are familiar with my own ideas related to environment, habitat and so on, then you will take that remark about my own (singular) behavior with a grain of salt. 😉

    Why do I want to underscore my own quasi “singularity” this way? Because I want to contrast my own behavior with the plurality of lovers — which is precisely my hypothesis: love is a plural behavior. All participants in a loving relationship realize that it is based on the mutual recognition that the “other(s)” in the relationship both derive satisfaction from appreciating the other(s), but also derive satisfaction from pleasing one another. This activates not only so-called “mirror neurons” but also feeds the narcissistic hunger for self-worth (and via a positive self-image also ultimately contributes towards a positive and a positively meaningful self-actualisation — i.e. in the context of others).

    It’s just a hypothesis. If it were something more, then I might be more confident in following it up. But since I have no shortcomings about confidence in my own ideas, I will follow up as if it were something more.

    Thus, therefore, … When someone says “I love you”, they take reciprocation as given. Whether or not this reciprocation actually exists needs to be determined. And perhaps such reciprocity needs to be developed over time. We do not normally move from a blank slate to full-on love at first sight. Such fantasies exist primarily because they seem extreme (i.e. fantastic) … almost like ideal states.

    In real life love is only gradually proven.

    PS: featured image adapted from “Banksy Girl and Heart Balloon” CC0 image (see credit via openverse.org below)

    “Banksy Girl and Heart Balloon” by – Dom – is marked with CC0 1.0.