I believe that everyone has at least ONE important and beloved person in life. And as many of us have experienced, we cherish the people we love. We care about them. We protect them. We wish for their happiness. We'd do anything for them, as much as possible.
In return, some parts of our hearts expect them to return the 'favor'. We want them to love us too. We expect them to take care of our feelings too. We don't want them to hurt our feelings, because it hurts much more when it's hurt by the person you love.
Not only in amorous love, we expect these reciprocal 'please-take-care-of-my-heart' things in friendship and blood relationship. The more we love the person, the more we protect that one's feelings, and the more we don't want that one to hurt us. But complicated we are as human, when the important person hurt us, there's a tinge in our hearts to make that person feel the same... to be hurt as much as he/she hurt us.
You know what, in the end those won't work. Love doesn't have to be reciprocal. Love doesn't avenge.
The more you expect from someone, the more you'll get disappointed.
The more you wish for someone to be hurt, the more your heart is corrupted.
In the end, there will be no happiness left.
Love is egoistic, some people might say.
And I think it's true.
True love lives for itself.
It doesn't live from consuming others' feelings.
It lives for itself.
So let there be love in your heart. Let it live for itself. Stop making expectations out of it.
Enjoy its existence because as egoistic as it is, it will only stay when you treat it well.
It will leave when you're full of disappointments and regrets.
