Always Choose Love Calligraphy Print

Sometimes choosing love will look like putting aside your preconceptions and learning afresh. I know how much you hate that, feeling out of your depth and new at something. But it’s worth it. Sometimes choosing love will look like laying down arms in the middle of a fight in order to love the other person the way they need to be loved at that moment, the way that they will feel your love the best (even if you think they should feel it already). Sometimes choosing love will look like removing yourself completely from toxic situations and loving yourself even when everyone around you is telling you that you don’t deserve love. Sometimes choosing love will look like choking back words of anger, dissent, or even just innocuously offering a different opinion from someone because you realize that they are not yet ready to hear what you have to say (or you realize that your words aren’t nearly as important as you want to think that they are). Sometimes choosing love will look like abandoning the faith to other people, when really you’re testing the spirits, putting on the faith and living the love and freedom you believe in while wrestling with the things that ring hollow. And sometimes you’ll mess up. Sometimes you won’t mess up, but the situation will suck anyway. Sometimes there is no right answer, no resolution, no peace, and you have to come to terms with that somehow in a way that will allow you to keep living, to keep loving anyway.