Love is mischievous but always sweet whether or not it is romantic or self-loving. In a few reckless weeks, you could lose yourself, pieces of yourself peeling off as the sun rises and sets. Love has ups and downs and shifts that you can’t just set on autopilot and ignore. It can slowly fade away if you are not alert, watchful, and focused, leaving you feeling empty, confused, and baffled when you wake up. This is how love breaks. Not all at once, but gradually, until everything comes together with a deafening crash. When it finally shouts at us, it catches us off guard and gives us a second warning to change course. It tells clearly that love is mischievous but always sweet.
You may become disinterested in your lover in this way. You can come to hate yourself in this way. You can fall out of love with your life, your friends, your home, and your daily routine in this way. Time often seems to be slipping away from us before we know it’s too late when we put in the effort and use excitement. Whatever form love takes, it’s a rushing train that may leave you behind if you don’t hold on to it or don’t watch out for yourself.
We cannot let the days go by without pausing to think, as this is how we get off track. Because we haven’t stopped long enough to figure out where to go, we keep going in circles like this. Even though we may think we have control over everything in our lives, everybody with any kind of life experience understands that this isn’t the case. Our lives have the power to either elude us or captivate us. Life moves on without us. Time passes whether we make good use of it or not. The processes of nature are unbiased; they grow, bloom, and ultimately pass away without human help.
Sometimes love can alter and develop so quickly that we run the risk of missing it and traveling faster than we should to get where we want to go. It’s advised to give up on yourself as if you’ve entered survival mode, which has limited access and capabilities, or safe mode when times are hard. When you begin to question and lose confidence in yourself, react with annoyance and anger, behaving as if every request is unreasonable. Imagine escape routes, areas where you can assume a different identity, and places where you can effectively reinvent yourself by finding a means to cope with the confusion inside of you. Giving up on oneself, then, is akin to giving up on all other aspects of your existence, such as love, goodness, and light. Giving up on loving oneself is going back to your familiar surroundings and things that make you feel at ease. You are safest when you are inside yourself, caught between thought and conduct in a condition of non-action. This is to say that you understand how easily it is to lose sight of a life that is there in front of you and how quickly love can fade.
Love is possible even in the absence of emotion since it is possible to survive without dying. You have the ability to feel without becoming overwhelmed by the feeling. Despite how obvious they may seem, contradictions can nevertheless exist when two things are true simultaneously. Just ask anyone who has been drowning in the details. Sometimes you might feel like giving up on attempting to stand up to society, accepting life as it is, and becoming “normal” like everyone else is the best course of action. You could wonder why you act the way you do and why your story always ends in the same place. These are valid concerns. You feel as though life is evaporating from you. It is ready to crumble, broken, and cracked. This is why Love is mischievous although it is sweet.
Giving up is the only way to pass away without really dying, so you start looking for love again in the most unexpected locations and transitory moments. You grab hold of the happy memories and shine a light on them to reveal their purity. Is this still beneficial? That’s how it operates. It’s the area where the mind can wander, a train off the track that is perilously near to catching fire in a way from which it might take too long to recover, between understanding it is happening and waiting for it to happen. That’s the challenging aspect of it. This is the area where extreme caution is required.
