Exactly this. đź’Ż
" 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.
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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This right here. This is why I read. Not because the words are beautiful, but because you named something that matters. Being held in someones heart even from a distance.
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You mention it seems contradictory at first. Kept in mind but not constantly thought about. But is it really a contradiction. Or is it just two different sizes of love.
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What youve written here is true, and I dont think enough people say it out loud. Being held in someones heart from far away can carry a person a long way.
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This is really pretty. The way you talk about being kept in someones heart, like they think about you sometimes without it being a big thing.
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The quiet part, being held in someones heart from far away without demanding anything. Is that something you feel?
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Being held in someones heart even from far away. Thats the whole post right there.
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I read that first line three times before I could move on. It stayed with me. đź“–
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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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Exactly this. đź’Ż
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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.