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Love, I Guess

Kind of a Twist Plot

By Maryem KhPublished 5 years ago 3 min read
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You matter so much, yet you don’t at all. Because you could mean the whole world to someone and at the same time, be considered a slight portion of the universe, a portion no one would ever notice. All you can do to be seen, to be remembered, is to go big, do big. Take chances and add to humanity what no one would’ve expected, that’s how the future will remember you and save you a great place in its wide heart. Or you can just focus on only one human being, you can love the hell out of them and change their life, you can be the light they never knew they needed and enlighten their dark life. You’d be doing something so pure and generous and you might also fall in love, which is the best feeling you would ever feel. Let me tell you about falling in love, and I hope everyone sees it the way I do, because sometimes, I fall in love with it.

It doesn’t start at first sight, it’s not some cliché movie scene where you get the fastest heartbeat from the moment you saw the person, in fact, you get that heartbeat every day since the day you start falling in love; when you see their name light up on your phone or when you remember what it feels like when their hands are touching yours. It’s when you wake up thinking about them, and you do your hair wondering if it will bring their attention. Sure, it looks kind of tiring, it is, but the difference between normal tiredness and love tiredness, is that you actually have someone worth feeling that for. Everything won’t really matter when you’re in love, not even yourself, that’s why I believe it’s the most selfless deed in the whole world, because you start caring for the world and try to better it, just because you now see it better than it already is.

Apart from experiencing weird feelings that are almost impossible to put into words, love means going through hell for someone who once meant nothing to you, a formal complete stranger. All of that because you can’t imagine your life without them and you’d rather die than live through that. You might also notice that when your person’s smile starts to fade away, you get the worst feeling in your chest and in your stomach and you feel like you’re somehow the reason of them not smiling as usual. And that is maybe the worst thing about being in love, and I say this bitterly because I believe that it’s a perfect feeling with no drawbacks, but this thing in particular, always drives me crazy: It’s that you constantly put the blame on yourself anytime something bad happens, even if you don’t admit it, you will regret every single word you said or didn’t say and wonder if this will be the end of your story. I still haven’t figured the solution to this little problem, but I wouldn’t keep it from you if I did.

I would write a novel if I wanted to talk about love and there will still be parts that I can’t describe, because this journey differs from one person to another, and each person will live it in a completely different way than I did. The only thing we will all agree on is that love is life and love gives your life some sense, and it gives you something to lean on, and a shoulder to cry on instead of a pillow to drown your tears in.

-Mary

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Maryem Kh

We're people who can't talk, so we write, hoping that someday those who didn't listen to us, will read us.

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