About this blog...

"I want to make some noise. I want to make you cry. I want to see the life on the other side. I wanna fly away..." - Wes Carr

This blog is about love. Everyone wants love. At least that is what we have all been conditioned to think we want. Society has become increasingly complex over time. We all want different things. The dream job. The fancy car. Financial freedom. Spiritual Enlightenment. True Happiness. The pretty house with the white picket fence and 2.3 children. Travel. A sense of individuality. A sense of purpose. But the one thing we all want deep down, is to be loved. Over the centuries the need for a mate, and to be loved and desired and feel beautiful has remained essentially the same.

I want love. I truly do. Perhaps my expectations and view of what love actually is has been distorted by sappy movies like The Notebook. Maybe I am waiting for something that doesn't actually exist. But, with all my heart, I want love. I want someone to make me laugh. I want them to make me cry. I want to feel the whole rainbow of emotions that are possible. I want to be loved by someone as much as I love them.

Ah yes. To have love returned. It seems like a pipe dream sometimes doesn't it? I think we've all had love that's been unrequited. I've had a few. Some normal. Some weird. Even some famous! Ha! Some unrequited loves make no sense whatsoever when you think about them, but sadly the heart wants what the heart wants. So often, as young women (and men if there are any reading), we have great capacity to love. And great capacity to forgive someone over and over for their mistakes, for causing us hurt, for their imperfections, and even for not loving us back. They are just human right? So we keep on loving. And yet we have great difficulty forgiving ourselves for being human and loving ourselves in spite of not being perfect. I know that I do and that is why I am writing this blog.

I have chosen not to disclose it to my family or to many friends, or to publicise it on my personal Facebook page. I want this to be as up close and personal as possible. I want it to be honest. I want it to be relatable. I want to share myself. And I want to write from my heart. But sometimes it's hard to truly do that if you feel that you are being judged or analysed by those who know you. In saying that, the search for love and fulfilment is so universal, it seems a perfect topic to write about. I hope you enjoy it.