Stories of love: unrequited and otherwise.

Does everyone have a love that they'll never forget? One person that they'll never really get over. Sterotypically this is how it goes: once upon a time you were together, you break up and not see each other for a long time, you're convinced you're over them but one day - one completely normal, ordinary, nothing special happening day - you see them in the street, and just like in a film, all the amazing memories you had with them coming spinning through your mind, overwhelming you with nostalgia and a love for this person like you had for them back at that time when you were making the memories.

But what about if you were never together? What if you were friends? What if you loved them as a friend, you grew to love them more and more, so much that it became unbearable and you wanted to just blurt it out but you knew you couldn't?

All we hear about are love stories, happy endings, where people find love and it makes their world - even if one of them leaves the world, it doesn't matter because you're left to believe that they would always love each other.
What about the people who find "the one", but their love is unrequited? They aren't "the one" to the person they love. What about those people? Why does no-one tell those stories? They may be depressing, heartbreaking but they're true! Just as true as any other love story.

Maybe I sound like a bitter girl who hasn't found love. Not requited love anyway.

I don't understand love. I don't understand anything to do with it. I just wish it was harder to fall in love so that your heart didn't feel like it was being ripped out when love goes wrong.

I'm scared that it will never go away. I'll leave, be convinced that I'm over it and then as soon as I see him smile at me, or just look at me and hold my glance and stare for a second too long like he always does, I know I'm just going to fall all over again. I'm scared it will never stop. One day I'll come back and he'll be in love with someone amazing and beautiful, she'll be everything I will never be, and I've lost, but it still doesn't stop. I'm scared that I'll meet someone, I might fall in love, but they'll never be everything that *he* is.

"I love him, I love him, I love him, but only on my own."

I hope you find requited love. But if not, tell someone your story. Everyone needs to tell their story.
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