Why is it that we hold so fiercely in both mind and heart to someone who does not fight for us in action, heart, and emotion as we do for them, when there is someone who would fight just as hard for us as we would for them?

Why do we continue  to bleed every word of our love and emotion to someone who says almost nothing in return, leaving us to bleed out in such sorrow, when there is someone who would speak the words which would sustain our heart as our words would sustain theirs through both sorrow and joy?

Why do we continue to hold to someone who does not hold to us at all, or to someone who only holds to the pieces of us they deem worthy while rejecting or trying to change the rest to suit their own version of perfection, when there is someone longing to embrace us as the perfect imperfection we are?

Why do we continue to embrace someone who makes us feel we are not worthy of true, mutual love, despite the love we still hold for them, when there is someone standing before us who desires to love us the very way we both long for love to be?

Why, after every failed attempt with someone, and the desire to try with another, do our hearts still war so violently between knowing when to walk away and when to try just one more time?

Which is the truest measure of our hearts’ insanity…refusing to let go of someone whose love for us has proven repeatedly to be unmutual in the way our hearts desire and long for, or refusing to embrace someone who longs to mutually love us, and to be loved by us, in all of the ways we’ve long been dreaming, wishing, and hoping true love could be?