No one prepares you for how much you can love someone you'll never share your daily life with. Nothing prepares you for the moment when you realize that feeling isn't enough. That life isn't always on your side. And that fate, if it exists at all, is sometimes silent.
You love someone, but they don't know it or don't love you back. Love becomes something you carry inside you - like a fire that burns quietly, without a flame. It is real, present, alive. But at the same time untouchable. Maybe the person is in another city. Maybe in another life. Maybe in someone else's arms. But despite everything, they are there, in you.
A reality that does not yield
What hurts the most is that there is no one to blame. There is no big fight, no betrayal, no end. Just a wall. Immobile, cold, without explanation. There could be a thousand reasons – time, circumstances, distance, obligations, fear.
And that's exactly why it's the hardest thing when you love someone but they don't love you back - because love still breathes, but it doesn't have a body. It's hard because Reason knows it is impossibleBut the heart continues to wait.
Love that doesn't get a chance
This is not a less valuable love. This is not “almost”. It is not “nothing.” It is full. Pure. Just closed. And you, who carry it, are not weak. Quite the contrary. Carrying love even though you know it will not be fulfilled requires incredible strength. That is maturity – not despair.
Sometimes it will eat you up silence. Second, the question of “what if”. And sometimes you will find yourself in moments when you would give everything for one touch, one conversation, one day that does not end with an unfulfilled desire. But these very moments prove that you are alive. That you are able to feel until the end – without guarantees, without expectations.
Now what?
It's not about forgetting. It's not about moving on as if nothing happened. It's about recognizing that you are capable of loving, even if you are not loved back. And you're still breathing. This is proof that you are ready for more.
Maybe not with him. Not with her. Maybe never with him. Never with her. But with someone, someday. But – first with yourself.
