Hardest Things In Love

this goes to a friend of mine who's feeling very, very low lately. STEADY KA LANG, chuy.

• Flashing your smile to someone you don't want to see.
• Bringing back the feeling you've learned to forget.
• Showing that you care.
• Finding a way to mend a broken heart.
• Learning that you've been used by someone you truly love.
• Saying "I Love You" when you mean it and when you don't.
• Letting go of a person you've just learned to love.
• Realizing that you love somebody you've just taken for granted.
• Realizing that you love the person you've just broken up with.
• Waiting for promises you know (s)he'll never keep.
• Saying your love for someone who loves somebody else.
• Reminiscing the good times you shared together.
• Shielding your heart to love somebody.
• Trying to hide what you really feel.
• Having a commitment with someone that you know would not last.
• Trying to hide the tears that involuntarily fall from your eyes.
• Sharing the one you love with someone else.
• Giving up someone you never thought of giving up.
• Falling in love for the first time.
• PRETENDING you're OK when inside you're dying.
• PRETENDING to be strong and RECOGNIZING your weakness.
• Lying in bed each night, thinking of that special person you can never have.
• Loving someone you haven't seen.
• Having the right love at the wrong time.
• Exerting effort to make the relationship last or work.
• Not being appreciated when you know you've given your best.
• Taking the risk to fall in love again.
• Hiding your relationship from someone else.
• Controlling your feelings to avoid hurting a friend.
• Choosing between 2 persons whom you really love.
• Seeing that person continue to be oblivious of your love.
• Turning down someone you love dearly but only as a friend.
• Listening to him talk about the girl he loves (which is not you) and seeing how his eyes light up as he does so.
• Seeing the guy/girl you love staring at a guy/girl who happens to be your friend while you're staring at him/her too.
• Getting extremely developed over a guy/girl who's a friend and finding out that he/she likes your best friend.
• Seeing your best friend and the guy/girl you love together.
• Thinking of him/her every waking and sleeping moment knowing all the while that he/she never even thinks a single thought of you.
• Loving him/her more than he/she loves you.
• Letting go only to find out later on you shouldn't have let go because everytime you see the person, you only fall deeper.
• Holding back only to find out when it's too late, you both felt the same way, but were only scared to lose each other so much that you didn't let the feelings out.
• When you both know that you love each other but you're scared of losing the friendship you have.
• When you let go of the person because your bestfriend you love so dearly is in love with the same person you love.
• Saying "I Love You" not knowing how the person will respond/reply.
• Keeping the feelings to yourself and when you finally let it out, it's too late.
• Letting go even if you really don't want to...having no right to say you are hurting because it was your decision.
• Bringing back the friendship you once had after a romantic relationship, pretending that nothing happened between the two of you when something really did.
• Letting go. Even when you know it really is for the best.
• Having to listen to the one you love talk about the one he/she loves.
• Having to hear "...I've met someone".
• Seeing the one you love with another.
• Learning to forgive.
• Learning to trust and love again.
• Having to wonder if what you feel is really love.
• Being a fool for the person just to make him/her realize that you love him/her.
• When you know you both love each other very much but your family does not approve of him/her.
• When he/she leaves you knowing that you'll never get to see each other again... and there's no chance of getting back together.
• Falling in love with someone you didn't mean to fall in love with.
• Falling in love with your best friend.
• Letting go of someone who was never yours.
• Finding the perfect guy/girl with only one problem: he/she doesn't love you...
• Helping the one you love "make ligaw" to your friend.
• Seeing the one you love crying for someone else.
• Going on a wait state for this guy/girl who you don't even have a tiny inkling as to how he/she feels about you.
• Breaking a friend's trust.
• Thinking that he loves you because of what he does for you only to find out that he did it out of pity or whatever.
• Giving your heart to someone who doesn't give a damn about you.
• Not knowing how you really feel.
• Having the courage to say I LOVE YOU to the person you love and finding out afterwards that things will never be the same again when he doesn't treat you with the same closeness as before.
• Loving another person to the extent that you already end up hurting yourself. The other person sees it, he/she doesn't care. He/she fails to realize that something good is already staring him/her right in the face, people tell him/her and he/she just ignores them.

Remember: when you hit the rock bottom, there's no other choice but to float to the surface again ;)

disclaimer: this was from an email circulation, my apologies if i can't give the author his/her proper credits