Unfiltered

I used to be so angry and pessimistic. Now I look back at that version of me and I wish I could hug her and tell her how happy she would be someday. Nothing about life is easy, I live as a military wife, I spend so long away from the person I love most. And yet I know no matter how far away he is or for how long, he’ll always come back to me and he’ll always be mine. I want so badly to go back … I want to tell you how much better it gets.

Hold on to your hope, whoever you are. It gets better. It really does get better.

Love truly is beautiful, but it’s not as cut-and-dry as media makes it seem.

I am married and I do love my husband oh-so-dearly, but when he is away there are days when I want to be held and there are times I think I would be happy to have that affection from anyone. Love will stray if left alone. My love is not less for this, it is actually more. When I think of how much I love this person, I realize that I am truly willing to endure this pain for him. Being in love is much harder than being disconnected and astray, it is much more painful to be in love. However, if you nurture your love properly, you will find that even the pain makes you so happy, because your love runs so deep that every second you spend away cuts like a knife and knowing you have such love hurts in the most beautifully fantastic way.

It’s so cliche it hurts to me to say it, but love is like a rose. A flower so beautiful we can’t resist it, but it causes us pain when we caress it within our hands. It cuts us and makes us bleed, but for that perhaps we love it all the more.

Ignorance must truly be bliss, because whenever I tell someone something factual that is backed up by research and science, they always give me some lame excuse as to why they don’t believe it.

How can you say you don’t believe in something that’s been proven? I don’t understand how that makes any sense at all.