So much can happen in a year, as it turns out, and life never turns out quite how it seems to be progressing. In sum, I feel very strongly that what I have learned about love can be explained in a sentence. The greatest act of love is to let them go. You know you really love someone when you are faced with the most difficult decisions, and you do what is best for them even while your heart is breaking. The question is not what is the best for me, or what is the easiest or the least costly, but really and truly, what would make the other person the happiest.
Another thing I have learned is the great pressure that a single heart can undergo. All the pain, all the heartache, and uncertainty only increases the capacity for one to love- if addressed in a healthy way.
To love and be loved is the greatest gift I have been given. Being loved challanges me, it completes me and motivates me in ways nothing else ever has.
