Un millón de razones para irse, sólo una para quedarse... ¿Merece la pena?

You know that moment when you feel like you’re at a crossroads of your life?

You’re constantly weighing up the pros and cons? The good and bad? The reasons to leave and the ones to stay?

I’m asking you now, does love really conquer all? Is loving someone truly enough to make a relationship work?

Lo único que puedo decir con seguridad ahora es que el amor es una emoción tan poderosa y tan extraña al mismo tiempo.

It’s powerful in the way that it can cure even the most damaged hearts and bring back faith in life even to those people who completely lost it.

Why is it weird? Well, it takes over your heart but it also has command over your mind and body too. Sometimes it makes you so blind that you can’t see even the most obvious things.

¿Vale la pena arriesgarlo todo por amor? ¿Vale la pena arriesgarse a que te rompan el corazón? ¿Vale la pena pasar por tanto dolor y drama?

Por supuesto, nada es seguro en la vida. Nunca podemos estar seguros de lo que nos depara el futuro y, a veces, simplemente tenemos que arriesgarnos y hacer algo aunque nos salga mal.

Sin embargo, este dilema no es tan sencillo.

Our heart is suffering because the person we love doesn’t love us in the same way but our heart also aches at the bare thought that we should let them go and move on.

How can we make a decision when we know that it’ll hurt us badly, no matter what we decide? It seems like we actually have to decide what will hurt us less.

¿Es el amor realmente tan poderoso que si alguien te da tantas razones para irte y tú sólo tienes LA ÚNICA para quedarte, sólo tienes tu amor, es realmente suficiente? ¿Sinceramente eso te haría feliz?

¿Puede el amor hacer que te olvides de todo lo demás, de todo lo malo, de tu relación? ¿Tiene también ese poder?

The thing is that for the rest of your life, you won’t be able to justify him treating you badly with the fact that he loves you and you love him.

Just because you love him, you can’t keep forgiving him for his mistakes. It’s not true love then, it’s just infatuation. And be careful, as those two are very similar so you may confuse them.

However, there is one very important difference between them, that true love is timeless, it doesn’t have an expiry date, while infatuation only lasts for some time and makes you obsessed with a person.

The sad truth is that it’ll really hurt you no matter what decision you make. But that’s just how life is and sometimes it truly isn’t fair and it seems like it’s only playing with us.

You know, I was once at the same crossroads where you’re now standing. I was also suffering the way you do now.

Yo también rezaba a Dios, igual que tú ahora. Le pedí que me mostrara la dirección correcta. But that wasn’t happening because He wanted to make me come to the right decision by myself.

Amaba a ese hombre aunque en realidad nunca me dio buenas razones para ello. Estaba profundamente enamorada de él a pesar de que sus acciones me herían tan a menudo, a pesar de que me rompía el corazón cada día, pedazo a pedazo.

It’s the weird side of love. Seguí cerrando los ojos a la verdad.

A pesar de que mi corazón ya estaba roto en un millón de pedazos, seguía trabajando y cargando la misma cantidad de amor, amor por el hombre que en realidad era culpable de todo su dolor y quien en realidad lo rompió.

I made my decision and chose a direction a while ago. That was a really tough call but I don’t regret it so now I know it definitely was the right one.

You have to fall in love with yourself again. Look at it in this way, you have a million reasons to choose yourself and only one to choose a man who doesn’t deserve you. Which will it be?

Don’t keep going back to the same old heartache because your heart will never be able to heal that way.

Choose yourself because your heart deserves it. Choose yourself because you’re the only constant in your life. Choose yourself because after all, you need yourself the most.