and when love finds you again,

I hope it is with someone who never looks at you and wonders if leaving would be easier. someone who doesn't let a bad season erase all the good things you've built together. 

because you know how it's like to be loved by someone who once promised forever, only to become the very person who let you go. you know what it's like to sit with a broken heart, replaying every moment and conversation in your head, wondering how someone who once held you so gently could walk away while you were trying to hold on. and maybe that's why losing them hurt so much the way it did (and still does). 

it hurts even more to imagine that when life gets hard, they decided that you were something they could live without.

so when love finds you again, I don't pray for a love story that never struggles. I don't pray for someone who could love you more than you've ever been loved, or someone who will never hurts you. I pray for someone who chooses to stay anyway, despite the inevitable fact that you will hurt each other eventually. someone who believes that whatever struggles lie ahead—no matter how impossible or complicated they may seem, it is always better to face them together.

I pray for someone you trust enough to be weak in front of. and on the other side, can trusts you enough to let you see their hardest moments too; not because you can fix them, but because there is a kind of strength that only grows when two people choose to carry something together. I pray for someone who understands that going through the storms together is not a burden. it is, perhaps, the most profound and honest form of love there is.

I don't pray for you to have a perfect love story, you don't need it anyway. I just hope that when you inevitably fall short of each other, you are both given enough strength, enough patience, and enough grace—to always find your way back home. to each other.

i hope love finds you again.

and you find them.