Knowing that someone loves us is one of the best sensations you can feel is comforting and energizing. Know that someone wants to see you and talk to you, that they are interested in the way you are, that they have a sincere interest based on a real appreciation, that is wonderful.
Sometimes, when it seems that nothing can get worse, that person comes and saves us with a call, a caress or a look, other times, a quick message or a warm welcome that reminds us that we are loved is enough to encourage us. Up.
- Knowing that we are present in the mind of someone who cares about us and that we are able to awaken emotions and feelings in someone is our best lifeguard.
- A buoy that certainly makes our most beautiful smile.
There is an excerpt from a book by Paul Auster, “The Palace of the Moon,” which perfectly defines how we feel when other people’s love saves us from the well we have fallen into and cannot leave:
“At that moment, I ignored it, it’s obvious, but knowing what I know now, it’s impossible to ignore these days without feeling a wave of nostalgia from my friends. Somehow, it changes the reality of what I went through.
I had jumped over the edge of a cliff and just as I was about to touch the bottom an extraordinary fact happened: I learned that there were people who loved me, that someone wants us so everything changes.
This does not diminish the terror of the fall, but it gives a new perspective on what that terror means. I jumped over the edge and then, at the last moment, something lifted me up in the air, it’s something I define as love.
It’s the only thing that can keep a man from falling, the only thing powerful enough to invalidate the law of gravity.
As we see in this wonderful definition, the love of those around us is our lifeguard, the lifeguard that protects us even when we drown and it seems that there is nothing to solve.
The sincere interest of those of us who do not know selfishness is something that is felt in the small details, that haunts us and keeps us connected with our emotional world and our relationships.
A world in which we sometimes live so alien that we forget that, as Maslow said, we cannot meet certain needs or expectations if we have no love, affiliation and connection with those around us as part of the foundation.
Whatever premise keeps us awake, we are lame when we don’t feel like anyone cares about us, so when we don’t have the presence of someone who helps us feel loved, we feel sad and abandoned.
We must connect and nurture our roots to continue to grow, so that beautiful leaves that symbolize love, health and prosperity may sprout from our branches. For our self-esteem and to maintain good humor, it is essential to have references, pillars that we can trust at a bad time, or to put on our formal clothes to dance without umbrellas in the rain of joy.
May they love us even when we are wrong, that it seems incredible that they are freed from the darkness, that they know our most imperfect version and that they keep us by their side, that they keep us, that they take care of us, that they breathe a sigh.
Because building a rewarding relationship depends, in large part, on the wings of others who want to fly with us, and who want to take care of the complicity of pure and sincere love that does not know selfishness.