What if it turns out to be something wonderful?

What if it becomes love?

throughout the entire love-shaped affair.

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Маргарита Архангельская

Everything will feel uncertain and that is because everything absolutely is.

This includes loyalty, a future, a chance, or closure when it finally falls apart.

Because there is just so much damnpotential.

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There is somethingthere, even if you two have not defined it yet.

But you feel that unnamed something and you have to believe they do, too.

And so, you want to wait and see what happens.

And while you are waiting, you begin to get lost in your mind asking, What if?

What if it turns out to be something wonderful?

What if it becomes love?

What if they are The One?

What if they just need a little more time to fall?

But then again, what if this is all a waste of time?

What if they are not as into this as I am?

What if they leave?

What if they are not the person I think they are?

It will be exhausting.

And when the situationship ends, which it always will, you will still be asking yourself what if.

What if it really was just bad timing for them?

What if I met them six months from now?

Or in three years?

What if I did not call back so soon?

What if I played harder to get?

What if I was enough for them?

What if they come back and I do not want them anymore?

What If I do?

It is the what-ifs that will break your heart the most.

You tell yourself that you could have been great together.

You could have been love.

You could have been forever.

But instead, you ended up becoming nothing at all.

And you have no evidence that you had something together.

You are not even sure if their friends knew you existed.

It almost feels foolish that you felt something so deeply for someone who was never truly yours at all.

And that is okay.

Name the pain so you’re able to own it and move past it.