unrequired love

I think the scariest part of growing older is realizing how easy it is to disappear without anyone noticing. You stop showing up to things, you stop answering messages, and life still goes on without you. The world doesn’t pause, people don’t wait, and that realization is both freeing and heartbreaking at the same time

that in the ordinary way we lose because we’re loved, and give more or less what we’re given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I’d once taken it to be. To give love without receiving it is to understand we are made in the image of God — because the love of God is immense and indiscriminate... See more