Learn to love someone without expecting something in return from them.
This reminds me of something I journaled several months ago:
Isn't this how we are supposed to love in these post-9/11 days? To live so we have no regrets? So we don't later ask ourselves "What would have happened if I....?" To throw our love--and all its related emotions--out into the world and hope that it finds someone who at the least wants it and at the best reciprocates it? I want to stop demanding more than I have in the expectation that I should have it. And to just find the good things that have fallen out of the past few months. (This is a ridiculously cheesy analogy) but that maybe it could be like looking at the beautiful rain instead of the stormy clouds it falls from...
This is giving me great pause right now and I think I'll have to go reflect on this. I'll report back to you in 2013.
