Be sure to say this sentence to the person you love
Many of us forget who we are and impose upon ourselves the image that other people have assigned to us. Rather than relying on our own self-confidence, we try to draw morale from the confidence others have in us. Rather than focusing on ourselves, we fret over what others think of us. As a result, without realizing it, we walk around wearing the masks that society has fitted onto us.
Yet what truly matters is the journey we take within ourselves, accompanied by our own thoughts. The feelings you have and the experiences you go through with the person you love are profoundly human and beautiful emotions.
You should think about the positives that the relationship you're living brings you. In other words, if you look at the glass as half full, you can discover the potential within yourself.
Your own potential is your true identity, and it is in your hands to bring out the strength within you. Without being aware of your own identity, it's not really possible to understand or make sense of love and romance. Seeking it in others and waiting for their compliments is nothing but a waste of time.
THE WAY TO IGNITE THE FIRE OF LOVE
To lead a life at peace with yourself, you need to make frequent journeys into your own depths. Breathing deeply, being grateful, being at peace with yourself, loving yourself, nature, other people, and the person who is in your life or whom you wish were in your life—these form the foundation of leading a life at peace with yourself.
Only by doing this, and with a sense of wholeness, can you ignite the fire of love within you. There will always be things we feel specially for someone. Love, hormonally speaking, is assumed to have a certain duration. What makes it possible to make love lasting is people's ability to transform this feeling into affection and to communicate with one another. A person's inability to share the things they want to say with anyone can justify sharing them with someone special.
Many of us, back when we were university students, shared our feelings and thoughts in their purest form with those closest to us. As time passes and relationships become mundane, I know many people who can no longer talk, can no longer share, and bottle things up inside.
Thanks to the person we love and share our life with, we discover ourselves and find the "self" within us. What we experience together is so beautiful, I don't know how much we are—or you are—aware of it...
APPRECIATE ITS VALUE
If today, on the occasion of February 14th, you truly value the relationship you're living, have lived, or dream of living, feel it from deep within, and can take a deep breath having made peace with the child inside you, how fortunate you are.
Using today as an excuse, you can start the day by telling your partner, spouse, or sweetheart: "It's you who brings out who I am, and for that I thank you again and again..." If this relationship has helped you find many things you had lost within yourself, then appreciate its value and don't wear it down—on the contrary, nurture it.
It's not possible to nurture this relationship by remembering it only once a year. But it's also not possible to reach the goal without taking the first step. It is in your hands to grow this deep love and affection you are experiencing, to make it more beautiful, and to make it lasting. Even a flower withers if you don't water it. Start today discovering the child within your loved one and the perfect, infinite light within them, and let this curiosity for discovery grow with each passing day. If you do this, rest assured that at the destination you reach, you will catch yourself saying: "Thanks to you, I am rediscovering the value of so many things about myself. Every part of me that had withered has begun to find life again..."
In truth, we make loving and love lasting not for the person across from us, but when we live it for our own inner peace, our own state of mind and spirit. Loving and nourishing yourself…
Every circumstance of life, for better or worse, is our own creation and belongs to us. When you take a look around you, every positive or negative detail that catches your eye in that moment is our own creation. For example, the traces we leave in nature, our quality of life, our initiatives in the political and social sphere, and, as a society, the traditions generally attributed to all of us, and afterward, the habits that form from them. Many similar patterns of behavior constantly reflect the general character of the society we are always speaking of and always living within.
As a result, without being aware of our behaviors, we carry many masks at the same time. Masks become a part of our lives. Sometimes, in a group we've entered without realizing it, we unknowingly display the behavior expected of us. Because masked behaviors have taken constant hold in our subconscious and are shaped according to the environment we find ourselves in.
Taking today, February 14th, as a reference point, what do you say we start the day by permanently setting aside a few of these masks we've acquired?
May your love be lasting and infinite…