Contemplative mood tonight.
What exactly is love?
People say that love is a feeling.
It's an inexplicable sensation towards a certain someone you can't explain.
But feelings are feelings.
Love?
It's a verb.
It's more than just declarations and words and flowers and gifts and all other cliche whatnot.
Love requires you to put in a effort, it's an action.
Falling in love is easy.
Afterall, the active verb there is "fall".
It's involuntary, it's unintentional.
But loving someone?
It's something you work towards, something you must do.


To love is to be vulnerable.
You give give give and never ask for anything in return.
So what happens when you're tired of being vulnerable?
When at the end of the day you realise that you have no one but you to protect yourself.


Breathe in, breathe out.
Dry your tears and smile.
Because it's a brand new day,
And life is too short to be spent dwelling on unhappiness.


Baby steps, Jolene.
Baby steps.