Raw Thoughts Series : What Truly Lies Within?

 There is no guarantee in love, you see. We grow up thinking of fairytales and epic love stories, imagining that one day, love will find us and take us into a world of eternal happiness. But does that really happen in reality? I’d like to believe it does, but deep down, I know it doesn’t. Love is more about pain than happiness. It’s about moments of doubt, of questioning everything, more than it is about moments of fulfillment. 

Love consumes you, especially if it’s real. It’s difficult, almost impossible, to let someone come so close to your soul, to strip it bare in front of another soul you barely know. Stripping bodies naked has become easy, perhaps it always has been—just flesh revealed. But what truly lies beneath the flesh and bones is a secret, a mystery that only one person can come to know, and even then, never entirely. Not even we understand our own souls fully in this lifetime. 

We spend our lives searching for pieces of ourselves in people and places, hoping to find some sense of familiarity, some connection, so we don’t feel so alien, so alone. Are we afraid of feeling unique? But isn’t that what most of us strive for—uniqueness? We often forget that we are already uniquely made, uniquely flawed in our own ways. The truth is, we don’t know how to handle our uniqueness because we seek validation from the world. People worship gods, perform rituals of all kinds, all to gain validation for the uniqueness bestowed upon them by these deities. So, what do we truly believe in? Only what we choose to believe, because our beliefs shift and change with convenience.