I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME

These three words “I love you” are very common and it has different meanings to different people; both to the speaker and the hearer. There are lots of motives behind that sentence both good and bad, the worst inclusive. "I love you" have been abused that it makes no meaning to many people that hear it these days. Why is that so? How will you know if someone really loves you as he or she professes? Someone said these days, snakes no longer hiss. Instead they say “how are you doing bro?" What does that imply? Some people that seem to care about you do not really do that in the true sense. They keep secrets but they tell you they are open, they lie to you, yet they can swear that they are telling the truth. They steal from you but they tell you, you are the one that is careless. They manipulate you into thinking they are the best for you and you cannot find anyone like them and so many other forms of deception.

THE WOUNDED HEART

The human was created by God with emotions and feelings that sometimes it cannot be controlled or imagined. These emotions and feelings are what make us different from every other inanimate things and it is centered in the heart. The heart is the center of blood supply to the body which gives life to the body. That is why when there is a heart attack, if not properly treated or taken care of, can lead to the death of the individual. Feelings and emotions are expressed in so many ways depending on the situation we find ourselves. As individuals, there are so many expectations we have towards each other most especially when two people are involved in some form of commitments towards one thing to achieve a common goal. At that point, some level of trust is expected from both individuals involved in order to make that happen. But what happens in a situation where one person suddenly betrays the other and goes ahead do a different thing from what both of them agreed on, and that decision was taken solely by the person without caring how the other would feel about it? Now that can lead to a broken heart. Sometimes, a wounded heart might not only come from a breach of contract or agreement. So many promises that were made have been broken. So many friendships have been destroyed and have led to an unending bitterness between the people involved because their hearts have been wounded. Sometimes it is difficult to forgive and heal; it is so difficult that suicide is often considered as the only option to relieve the pain. Many people do not have the heart to go on because they have stopped believing that trust and love can be regained. They have decided that if their best friends can betray them or turn their backs on them, there is nothing to live for anymore. So many people have been sold out and rejected by their family and they have concluded in their minds that love does not exist. People have been jilted by their partners in one way or the other, the only people they ever loved and these have driven them into drugs, alcoholism and other dangerous actions.