Belief

Apologies for the holdup, school keeps me sufficiently occupied and there isn’t as much time as I hope for matters of leisure.

So anyway, today I’m gonna talk about love and belief. What is belief exactly, and how or why am I linking it to love? The dictionary on my Mac defines belief as something one accepts as true or real; a firmly held opinion or conviction. I think belief’s something we HAVE to have in our lives or life itself is meaningless. Similarly, if we don’t believe in love, we can just about cross out any hopes of finding it.

You know how people tell you that you should wait for love to come to you? I wouldn’t say that I think it’s a big loada crap, but rather I don’t believe in it all that much. Here’s the thing, if you sit patiently and wait for it, how would you recognize it when it really comes? Like they tell you, you don’t earn things without working for them; isn’t it the same with love? Bet you’re wondering what I’m rambling about since I said I’m gonna talk about belief right? Actually, I think it’s all interconnected. You see, if you just wait for love, you wouldn’t be totally, completely believing in it right? So let’s assume that love DOES come along, are you gonna know it when it comes along?

You need to do the courageous thing and put yourself out there when it comes to love; something that really scares some people (and sometimes, they have every right to be). Like I said previously, love’s gonna hurt, but if you hold back, you could miss out on something great. You need to believe that it’s gonna be worth it, believe that there’s something, someone out there who’s gonna be everything you believed in.

So that’s believing in love. Now, on to believing in THE person. Sometimes, it isn’t so easy. No love or relationship is flawless; as much as we like to think that it is. There’s some problem somewhere and when there’s a problem, we lose faith, we lower our expectations. Why must we lower our expectations? We don’t have to.

People are gonna let us down, life itself is going to let us down; heck, even we’re gonna let ourselves down. We believe things will turn out a certain way, believe that people will be all we want and need; but more often than not, it doesn’t turn out that way. And when this happens, we get let down, we get hurt. So it feels a lot safer not to believe in something special.

I’m not gonna lie, sometimes it hurts to believe; scratch that – Alotta the time, it hurts to believe. But what’s the point of living life with sucha big safety net? We need to venture out and throw ourselves on the line, don’t we? We need to take a chance and give the world a whirl. Let’s put it this way:

Maybe believing is gonna hurt… but if you don’t try, you’ll never witness for yourself that maybe it won’t.

Just to share, when it comes to believing, I think this is by far the most powerful quote that has ever come my way. From One Tree Hill:

“Make a wish and place it in your heart. Anything you want, everything you want. Do you have it? Good. Now believe it can come true. You never know where the next miracle is gonna come from, the next smile, the next wish come true. But if you believe that it's right around the corner, and you open your heart and mind to the possibility of it, to the certainty of it. You just might get the thing you're wishing for. The world is full of magic. You just have to believe in it. So make your wish. Do you have it? Good. Now believe in it. With all your heart.”
- Lucas Scott, Peyton Sawyer, Brooke Davis, Nathan & Haley Scott;
One Tree Hill

So if you believe in love, believe in a person; believe in it, believe in them… with all your heart. ‘Cause love IS about the heart isn’t it?