Why L-O-V-E hurts

"The game of love is the game of boomerangs...our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, and with astounding accuracy.”
- Florence Shinn-

“The way I feel for you, I cannot describe. It’s almost too intense to verbalize. Essentially, you are all I am living for and each day I just need you more & more.”
-Anonymous-

The last quote sounds so corny right? But admit it, it sounds sweet too.

Was there a point in your life wherein you have uttered similar words? Was there a time wherein your whole attention was to a certain person who makes your day even brighter, who makes your life worth living or someone who makes you go crazy in love?

Oh well, here we go again talking about love. Love that really makes me go extreme. Love really is a mysterious word. It can actually launch an ocean of tears when you are hurt, can give the most painful pain in the whole world, and most of all, the happiest feeling you could ever feel.

According to wikipedia.com, “Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection or profound oneness. Depending on context, love can have a wide variety of intended meanings. Romantic love is seen as a deep, ineffable feeling of intense and tender attraction shared in passionate or intimate attraction and intimate interpersonal and sexual relationships.”

Let us try to look at the painful part of love, getting hurt. Ouch! Hearing the words, “getting hurt” truly is agonizing. Getting hurt and experiencing pain are parts of loving. How will you know that you are already falling in love if you would not get hurt?

I have experienced getting hurt because of love. It was such a tragic event for me. I never expected that love could be so painful. I never expected that instead of getting discouraged, I felt that my love for this certain person got even stronger and become more intensified. It was such a learning experience for me. At the start of my “game”, I knew that I was already falling in love. But, when I got hurt and felt so much pain, that was the only time wherein I fully understood what truly love is.

Getting hurt is the beginning of new transition in your life. It is easy to look at an experience in a negative way, but I would like to challenge you to view your that painful feeling as a new beginning -- a real chance for finding your Mr. or Ms. Right.

Most people say that when you get hurt because of love, meaning, you truly are loving. Meaning, the person who hurt you is someone really close to your heart and someone you really treasure. If you will ask me, LOVE and PAIN always go together. That statement might sound funny or weird but that is true. Believe me.

“If you would not lose anything, you would not know what you really have.”

"Real love hurts; Real love makes you totally vulnerable and open; Real love will take you far beyond yourself; Therefore real love will devastate you. If love does not shatter you, you do not know love." -Anonymous-