You type "Good morning" countless times and delete it with backspace. You order their favorite food and then cancel the order, thinking it wouldn't be right to do this. A beautiful poem suddenly catches your eye and you take a screenshot, thinking you'll share it with them, but despite wanting to send that screenshot over and over, you can't bring yourself to do it. Wonderful lines come to your mind to tell them, yet when it's time to speak with them, your tongue becomes strangely paralyzed. You keep thinking and only thinking: what if they mind? The thought of actually meeting them keeps coming to your mind, but somehow you just can't bring yourself to tell them. You wait and keep waiting. Your mind is filled only with fear: what if they turn me away? What if they think badly of me? As a result, you fail without even trying! You're afraid to confess your love, because you fear: what if they don't respect you? What if they don't love you back? The more you think, the more bizarre thoughts flood your mind. Thinking too much sometimes makes you feel like you're going mad. You don't want to show your weaknesses, you don't want to hear "no" from their lips. You think, well, let's see what happens! You're taking time. What you're taking time for, you don't even know yourself. But you weren't always like this. Once you loved someone intensely, and then you had so much courage. That fierce love wounded you so deeply that today you're gradually drowning in an ocean of fear. Having fear isn't bad—it's actually better to have some fear in the mind for self-protection. When there's fear in the mind before doing something serious, you can step more carefully, reducing the risk of mistakes. When you encounter someone who matches your heart so well, you become very cautious, because your fear still hasn't lifted, and in this state you've found them! You'll discover that what you've been searching for day after day, when you suddenly find it, you become restless with the fear of losing it! You'll think: I was searching, that was fine. Why did I find them! What if I lose them now? What if they don't like me? What if some other trouble appears? You'll see helplessly that your head isn't working properly, restlessness upon restlessness is driving you nearly mad! Relationships are such strange things! It's difficult to fall in love without being foolish enough. When you feel love for someone, you'll see that even before winning them, the fear of losing them prevents you from doing anything at all! So find someone you can go crazy for, someone whose potential loss can keep you restless with fear!
The Many Truths of Relationships
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