Love a Little
By Jekca
@Jessicalynnt (50525)
Centralia, Missouri
February 13, 2016 9:38pm CST
Close your eyes and remember your first love, first kiss, first crush (ok smarty pants AFTER you read this). Remember how it felt? Remember the feels, all great and small? Those, those are what life is about.
Those feels are your soul growing, adding color, adding depth, adding dimension. Our souls need this to continue to evolve. A life without love is a waste of the air one partakes in.
Love can come in all shapes and sizes, friend, family, four footed family... it matters not to the soul. Each type of love has it's own value. There is nothing more sad than a love lost, unless it is a love lost to someone's passing. That kind of love...is final, there is no going back, no chance at a rekindling.
Still, better to have loved and lost, than never loved at all.
Despite the pain I still agree with that. I am a better person for having loved who I loved. I learned, and I grew. And while I may still have an ache that never really heals.... I wouldn't go back and prevent myself from loving.
So as you are in love, falling out of love, looking for love, or loving the smaller things, I urge you to reflect a moment on this.
And I wish you footwarming love.
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17 responses
@simone10 (54189)
• Louisville, Kentucky
15 Feb 16
@Jessicalynnt Very true and even the bad ones helped us grow.
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
16 Feb 16
@simone10 exactly, pain has it's use too. as do lessons, even learned the hard way
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
14 Feb 16
very much so, those relationships are part of what made us, and how we got where we are
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@Ladypeace (2028)
• Singapore
14 Feb 16
More often than not, we get caught up with our endeavors that we have forgotten to take a step back and reflect on the grand scheme of things. I'm inspired by your post to do just that today.
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
14 Feb 16
@Jessicalynnt I was hinking about that at l nch today as I marveled at my small table mate a petite lady who had
arthritis so bad in her hands her fingers are badly gnarled.
Yet she has learned how to manage and smile as she does.She once told me of how she fled from Vietnam during the war ears and her adult kids refused to come wth her, but came to the US later on. Such bravery and such a big smile she wears.people here do inspire me at times. both on our mylot and here where I live.
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
15 Feb 16
@Hatley that is some deff inspiration
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
14 Feb 16
I am glad, I hoped it would inspire people and in a good way
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@celticeagle (159222)
• Boise, Idaho
15 Feb 16
I was so pitifully shy when I was young that I had to enlist friends to help me. And things rarely went well.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
14 Feb 16
Considering it's 6:12 am this is a little deep for me right now. I have love several times in my life but true love only once and it's the last one.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
14 Feb 16
@Jessicalynnt Win a few - misplace a few!!
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
14 Feb 16
@AbbyGreenhill I was just mad it was on a deep one, rather than one on minutia!
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
14 Feb 16
hahahah, well you know I wrote this twice, and managed to lose the first post, I didn't think it was near as need the second time around, but glad you took it that way!
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@Tampa_girl7 (49056)
• United States
14 Feb 16
I can't imagine my life without love.
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@Masamune_Muramasa (18)
• Bhubaneshwar, India
14 Feb 16
The day i was smitten was the best day of my life, i haven't been able to put it in words since 5 years but the fact that i tried numerous ways to get her, but it didn't work out the way i expected :P
She is dating someone else :P
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@alchemistrx (2547)
• Philippines
14 Feb 16
So sad but that's life. At least you had tried to love her.
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
14 Feb 16
some loves are loves that are lost, still, time has a way of changing things.
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@Masamune_Muramasa (18)
• Bhubaneshwar, India
16 Feb 16
@Jessicalynnt You wont believe what happened, I have been trying to meet her since 5 years but she doesn't want to, yesterday we were talking and she wants to meet me on her 26th birthday, 5 more years !
I will keep waiting !
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@alchemistrx (2547)
• Philippines
14 Feb 16
We all experience love one way or another.I still remember the crush who went to heaven.
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
14 Feb 16
I have one of those, I miss them greatly.
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
14 Feb 16
I regret some of the ways some things ended. Not that they ended, but that I didn't handle them better, you know?
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@moffittjc (118492)
• Gainesville, Florida
14 Feb 16
That is a very nicely written post! Without love, we are no better off than a bump on a log.To live is to love, and to love is to live. Thanks for sharing your wisdom on the day of love!
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
15 Feb 16
and part of love is pain sadly. if there was no light there would be no shadow, if there was no shadow would there be no light?
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@jillybean1222 (6408)
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14 Feb 16
be grateful for those whom we love or have loved
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
14 Feb 16
I think people see love as one feeling, when in reality I believe the greeks (I think it was them anyways) were closer, with love meaning more than one thing, and there being more than one variety of love.
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@richjohn07 (641)
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14 Feb 16
That's why we should not give our whole life to someone so that if we get hurt, there still a little love remaina for ourselves.
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
15 Feb 16
I think there is always room for another little bit of love.
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
14 Feb 16
I am still so grateful for my hubby even though hes gone now for a long time and my sons love and the love of my friends. I love you all too mylot been such a blessing for me. If I could go back now and change anything I would not as all the downs and ups worked to make me who am now.
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@Inlemay (17714)
• South Africa
22 Feb 16
oh you are reaching very deep into my soul with that first question/statement. My eyes are shut but i cannot recall, i might have to linger a little longer with them shut. But to be in love or to have loved is a wonderful experience and one should never give up on LOVE and the good things that come with it! 
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
23 Feb 16
I was feeling rather introspective that day for sure
