One-sided love doesn't exist. And you can finally stop being tormented by it. What you're tortured by is persistent desire and momentary lust, not love. Love doesn't torture, because love, in and of itself - is impervious to doubt. It cannot possibly exist in one-sided form. Don't believe me? Think about what love is for a second. Is love not the ability to see your own self in the other? To experience such degree of unity and oneness that you can no longer see a difference between their joy and yours? When separateness stops to matter - that's love. Like a mother loves a child, or a father who wouldn't think twice to lay his life down for his offspring. There is no space for doubt with love. It is instantaneous and immediate, unmistakable, undeniable, unshaking, regardless of circumstance. There is no barrier, no environmental factor, no awkward situation, no moment of mediocrity or social dynamic that can hope to stand in its way. That's just what the movies teach - that love must manifest as some sort of gift of fortune, or that it can be manufactured through a lucky meeting or chance encounter on some desperate, lonely corner-street. The truth is far simpler: If she's not dead-crazy about you from the very first second, from the very first word - it's probably not love. If he wouldn't cross whole oceans and do battle for your honor because of a single fleeting glance - it's probably not love. And that's a good thing. When someone you think you love doesn't like you back - you should, in truth, be thankful, because you just received confirmation that what you've been feeling, in fact, was not love at all but something else. Be thankful and move on! Because, again, love cannot possibly be one-sided. Knowing this will save you a river of pain. It goes against what love is, its very nature is of unity and oneness, so how can it possibly exist in a state separation? It's impossible. But when we're unable to move on from the illusion of love, we cling to false ideals, and to our lesser understanding of what kind of love we deserve to receive and from whom. What it needs to look like and all that. That's one quick way of becoming the architect of your own suffering. For the young, there is no such thing as rejection. Rejection doesn't exist. All you're experiencing is re-direction. You are being shown where love is not. And, through it, you are being directed to where love is. All you have to do is to know the signs and take them. Take the path laid out before you. And when you do experience it - true love - it will be so incredibly clear, and so incredibly effortless - for both parties. You most certainly won't have to torture yourself to find it. ![[A0682F5A-F4AD-4248-A23F-148DFA9C993F.gif]] There is nothing to [[fear]], nothing worth despairing over in matters of romance. Like I often say, one-sided love cannot exist - by its very definition - it is impossible for it to occur. Love is seeing the self in another, coming into oneness. It doesn't happen - it just exists.