How much of ourselves are we willing to sacrifice just to be loved? We are told to be honest, to speak up, and to follow the rules of the heart. They lecture us that “love is the key,” as if we don’t already know—as if we haven’t been saved by it, or broken by the weight of its absence.
We sacrifice our deepest desires and inspirations for a world that takes them, claims them as its own, and then has the audacity to tell us how to live. Perhaps our god is not Eros, the bringer of passion, but Anteros—the avenger of unrequited love, the one who judges those who do not love in return.
Yet, how can we even judge others when our own love and inspiration are screaming to break free from within us? They tell us that we built the world upon our emotions and thoughts. But how many times have we shared those pieces of our soul, only for them to be stolen? We spend our lives trying to calculate the perfect way to be “enough” to earn love in return, forgetting the simplest truth: to love yourself is to love the ultimate creation.
You tell us, “I like you, I love you, I will help you.” But how many times did you actually show up?
Do not lecture me that love is the “key.” I was made of love, I was saved by love, and I have done all things in its name.
They say that reality—our societies, our languages, our symbols—was built on the human desire to belong. Then, in the same breath, they tell you to control your emotions and suppress your desires. I am telling you: that is a trap. Trying to control the uncontrollable is a rabbit hole of “good” and “evil” that leads nowhere. Do not seek to master your emotions. Instead, listen to them. Understand them. Experience the world through them. As wild and uncontrollable as they are, they are the only truth we have.
.:THE GUIDED REFLECTION:. 
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