Love Isn't Grand.

Dearest You,

Love isn’t Disney’s fairy tale, Prince Charming, white knight, happily ever after omg forever and ever and ever. It isn’t roses, chocolates, wine, fancy dates and trips, fun, excitement, and romance.

No.

Love is more like three crying kids in the back of the car after a bad week at work, when you’ve barely slept for days and you’ve been fighting with your beloved about the same damn thing for the last two weeks, and you have an overwhelming urge to just drop it all and run away because my God this can’t be what the rest of my life will look like, will it?

Yet despite it all, you still come home, and you do what needs to be done to get through it right now, because you choose to. Because you choose to continue to love despite the fact that you are not happy right now, because you remember that right now is not forever, and in fact your lifetime is not forever. 

And if you love as best as you can, you will outlast right now, because life is a series of ever-changing moments of trials and joys.

Sometimes love is grand, and sometimes it’s not. Sometimes it isn’t fun, but that doesn’t make it any less important. In fact, during the most difficult, and trying of times, to love, and to continue to love, is actually the most important thing you can, and have to do.