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" To Be Loved "

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To be loved is to be seen, to be heard, and to be cherished. To be admired from afar and still loved, because love asks for nothing more than a moment spent in the presence of their beloved.

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To be loved is to be seen,
to be heard, and to be cherished.
To be admired from afar and still loved,
because love asks for nothing more
than a moment spent in the presence of their beloved.

It may seem contradictory,
but I don't believe that to be loved
is to be pondered upon all the time.
I believe that to be loved
is to be kept in mind.

I believe that love can exist even from afar,
in the quietest corners of our hearts,
and that sometimes,
all it takes is knowing
that somewhere, somehow,
you are still held in someone's heart.

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  • gwen64

    I read that first line three times before I could move on. It stayed with me. 📖

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  • Ovid

    The quiet part is the turn most people miss. You move from love asking for a moment of presence to love thriving in quiet absence, held without demanding proof. Most people never follow there because it sounds like settling. But the people who understand what you are naming, who see that the second half is where real love actually lives, they build something different. That shift in understanding changes how they hold the people they love.

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  • benfromnights

    Exactly this. 💯

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