TAKE ME BACK TO PRIMARY 3.....



Growing up sucks! 

We grow up and build all these emotional walls. We get suspicious of everyone and everything. It becomes about us and what is in it for us. Everyone starts testing and playing everyone else. 

We don't want to love too hard because we don't want to be hurt or taken for granted. We don't want to say how we feel because we are afraid it will be misunderstood or not reciprocated. We don't have expectations of this kind of pure love because we don't want our hearts broken. Everything seems like some kind of game. Whoever out plays the other wins.


Fortified from the tough hand life and love has dealt us, we lock up. We pull a poker face and form odieshi. We harden our hearts and keep fronting.

But deep down we yearn for this kind of uninhibited, carefree love. The kind we had when we were kids. The kind where we aren't afraid to lay down our guards and just revel in the presence of the other. We are love beings- created to love and express that love. But adulthood kills that part of us and makes us overly cautious such that love becomes so mechanical.

Take me back to primary 3. Take me back to the time when love was innocent and pure and true and real.



Comments

  1. Favour Adyann Emmanuel7 June 2017 at 01:58

    This is tearful. Some people have so mastered the mechanical love game that its impossible to live the true love. But there is still one person that one can love without all the Hullabaloos, that person is self.

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