The Other Side of Love

Love is a scary and powerful emotion. It has the ability to bring you immense highs and devastating lows and the wild ride of the ups and downs in between. It's an awesome thing but what happens when you are totally in love with someone and that loves isn't returned? I can tell you from first-hand experience that it is one of the most hurtful experiences a person can go through. I'm currently going through this and this feeling sucks.

When you first meet that someone, you go through stages. Rarely does the "love at first sight" event occur but that too, can happen. So, you meet that person and you see you have things in common. He/she treats you well and you like spending time with them. This feeling of like soon evolves into love and pretty soon, you spend every available minute thinking of them. You want to learn all you can about them and do everything in your power to make them happy. You want to be around them all the time and when you're not able to, you miss them badly. You think of the little (and sometimes big) ways to change so you two would be better suited. Basically, you want to give your all and all you ask for in return, is that they love you too. Sometimes it's so simple and innocent. You don't want money, fame or power. You just want those feelings to be mutual and most likely, you'd give anything to make it happen. If you're lucky enough, that other person will love you just as much, if not more but when that love is not returned, you feel lost and like you'll never get over it.