Sacrifices of Love

Sacrifices of Love

Love.

Devotion.

Feeling.

Emotion.

Passion.

What do we sacrifice for love?

What does love sacrifice for us?

How much time do we need to sacrifice in order to love and to be loved?

How much patience do we need to sacrifice in order to love and to be loved?

How much energy do we need to sacrifice in order to love and to be loved?

How much effort do we need to put in and sacrifice in order to love and to be loved?

How much of ourselves do we need to sacrifice in order to love and to be loved?

Respect and sacrifices and effort and time and patience and energy are all required between the two people to have a successful and fulfilled relationship, full of love, full of passion, full of understanding, full of tolerance.

Are you currently in the relationship? Is that a long term relationship? How long have you been together? Do you love each other passionately? What sort of sacrifices have you already used? How much sacrifice has your partner already used?

In any kind of relationship we have to be willing to sacrifice. Sacrifice a lot of ourselves, learning lessons along the way, respecting different points and views of our partner and still be strong enough to give it our all, under every and any circumstance.

Or are you that sort of person who waits first for your partner to take the first step, take the first step to apologize, take the first step to cook you a dinner, take the first step to ask for help, take the first step to do a favour for you, take the first step to do the cleaning, take the first step to ask about your day, about your work, about your troubles, about your challenges, about your insecurities, about your achievements, about your good times and bad times as well, take the first step to forget, take the first step to forgive, take the first step to ask about your goals, take the first step to ask about your friends, take the first step to ask about your family, take the first step to ask about your boss, take the first step to run a bath for you after a busy day at work, take the first step to make you a cup of tea, take the first step to make you a breakfast in the morning, take the first step to do a laundry for you, take the first step to send you a text message, take the first step to give you a massage, take the first step to rub your back and shoulder and feet, take the first step to write you an email, take the first step to say he/she was sorry, take the first step to ask how you are feeling today, take the first step to leave a note for you on the kitchen table and wherever for that matter at any time of the day, take the first step to collect you and pick you up with the car, take the first step to sing a song for you, take the first step to buy/purchase a gift/present for you, etc.

People can have so many disagreements between one another. They can be judgemental of their partners, they may have difficulties forgiving certain actions that their partner has taken and they cannot approve of it for one or other reason, they can throw tantrums for whatever reasons and not being able to see the consequences of such actions of theirs, they can build walls around them and this could prevent their partner’s attraction toward them, they can literally make themselves look ugly in their partners very own eyes.

What about sacrificing your very own rules?

What about sacrificing something you have been keeping sacred?

How about sacrificing your very own habits?

How about sacrificing your very own pain you have been holding against your partner?

How about sacrificing something you have told yourself not to do ever again?

Can you still love your partner against all the odds?

Can you still feel the love toward your partner beyond all the differences you actually share together?

When was the last time you have sacrificed yourself in the question of love?

What did you sacrifice for the question of love?

Who did you make the sacrifice for?

Would you just forget about yourself and sacrifice all of yourself for the other person? 

What would that cost you?

Real love is about sacrificing. We think more about the other person, about their happiness and about their wellbeing, about their troubles and about their worries, about their achievements, about their successes, about their joys and about their sorrows, about their hunger, about their passion, about their birthdays if you are that sort of person.

We would definitely put the other person first, we would serve them the best meal, we would give them the first go, the first opportunity there is to be happy and fulfilled and satisfied and totally well - adjusted under every and any circumstance.

Is there such a person in your very own life? What is their name?

The person in question made a contact last night. And a very daring as that is.

Does your person know that their represent such a huge part in your life?

When was the last time you included them in such a conversation of yours?

Does the person in your life feel the same way about your and the relationship you share between you both?

Where and when did you share such a strong bond with one another of sacrifice?

And speaking of sacrificing, how much do we ever care to sacrifice for our very own children? We stop thinking about ourselves at that very instant and our children become the number one priority in our life. Always. No matter what.

We would always do more for others than we would ever do for ourselves. No question about it whatsoever!!

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