The Magic In a Love That Stops

Because it’s hard to love in a hurry

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We stop to give form to offense and reshape it into beauty.

For a world in a hurry, it’s hard to stop. Even the all of two minutes it takes to nuke our dinners seem a lengthy wait. We can’t stop. We must keep going so as not to miss out.

But what if by stopping, your love can make magic, transforming into a lifeline that pulls a loved one out of despair?

Beyond our immediate relationships, the internet is also awash with stories of people’s traumas. Their brokenness and hope for better. There are all these stories of people crying out when emotional pain closes in, strangulating their gusto for life. Dismissed as unworthy of friendship, they grow cold in isolation, reaching for a connectedness blockaded by distrust.

We may dismiss them as stories of people out there, and miss seeing the reflections of ourselves or our loved ones in the uncomfortable descriptions.

We read of many misjudged prisoners of misunderstandings weighed down by pangs of guilt that ought to have never found them. Some become magnets of imaginary failure, blind to their untapped capacity to add value. Some face rejection, character assassination, abandonment, other, and self-neglect — cycles of…