There's this website that I love called goodmorningandgoodnight.com and sometimes at just the right moments I stumble on the most appropriate and perfect quote on there. I found this one this evening while waiting like a dumbass, yet again, waiting, for someone to show up and realizing that it's just time to let go of whatever I think should be reality or ways to show caring and just accept that other people see it differently and see love and the world and life and interactions differently, and it's not bad it just is reality, it just is. I need to stop projecting my beliefs and practices and decisions about how things should be onto other people and just let other people be who they are and who they decide to be and act the way they want and it's not the way I would act, nor the way I would want to be loved or in the way I would expect mostly to be cared for, but it's their way and that way is right to them and the way they expect to be loved and cared for and that just is how it is because everyone is different.
http://www.goodmorningandgoodnight.com/?p=984
That's the link to the quote but here is the actual quote:
“Because, that’s the thing about love, really. No one will love you how you want to be loved, they’ll love you in the only ways they know how. Life throws everyone down drastically different paths so how can we expect everyone to love in the same way? The person you’ll spend your lifetime with will love you in their way and you’ll love in yours, and maybe you’ll meet in the middle and it’ll last. None of us know what we’re doing, you see, we’re just fumbling for matches in the dark. If you’re lucky, you might eventually just strike the right one.”
I assume because there is no "speaker" at the end that it is an anonymous quote or unknown author. But it is profound, at least to me.
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