This I Believe

This I Believe

I believe that it is difficult to express your beliefs through paper. When I first started to battle this task I found my mind going off into space on a rocket ship. Since I am filled like treasure chest with so many different and wonderful beliefs, I didn’t know where to start or even where to end. Beliefs began to horde my thought process and I soon started to feel as though my head was going to burst like a firework on the Fourth of July. Knowing in my wits that my beliefs are shaky and can fall off the track at any moment, I knew this wasn’t going to be trouble-free. In my eyes, it was like trying to find an earring in a swamp. From the moment I started it was as clear as newly polished glass that I would end up writing about love.

I believe that love confuses me and I’ve learned to deal with that. I worship the feeling of being in love and I can’t get enough of the butterflies pitter-pattering through my stomach, even after time has passed. The little presents being swapped even when there is no occasion and all the “I love you’s” that are whispered back and fourth, make love even better. Having that special soul mate and being able to turn to them whenever you need to talk to someone is one of the best feelings in the world.

I bet you’re thinking if love is so great then why does it confuse you? Well, I guess I could say that I believe in separating love into two categories: the good love and the bad love. The good love is the love I described before, with your heart in a whole different place belonging to that special someone. The bad love is the type of love most of us have probably witnessed and if you haven’t then you’re very lucky. It’s the kind of love makes you feel like you never want to fall in love again. The kind that hurts inside as though you feel like your heart is separating into two pieces and then never being able to mend back together. It’s as though you love someone and they don’t love you back.

I believe that the bad love is out there for a reason and the only reason I can justify is that it’s there to use as a lesson and not a regret. After stumbling upon many bad love roads, I’ve finally found the good love path. It’s like a summer field full of daisies compared to the dark and gloomy woods I was in before. Love makes me feel like a better person and also brings out the best in me, but that doesn’t mean I can’t survive without it. Love is great, as long as you let it be.

I still feel as if you can never express all your beliefs on one piece of paper, but I know I have time to achieve more. Loves will come and go in my life since I’m still young, but hopefully one day I will find that perfect love that will take me out of this world and into paradise. I’m excited to add to my collection of beliefs, which are buried within my treasure chest as I wander upon this twisting and turning road we call “life”.