Best Advice
By Angel
@nanayangel (7879)
Philippines
May 4, 2007 2:55am CST
What's the best advice that you can give regarding love. I have heard alot but for me, the best one would be to never dwell on the past because sometimes, it's what's holding you back from happiness.
I know that when we love, we can't avopid being hurt but what we should do is take the lesson learned from them but not to bring it up again and again.
How about you?
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7 responses
@tweety7 (21)
• Australia
6 May 07
"Being In Love", is something we put enormous store by when we are young, and we invest tremendous time and energy preparing for it. We also suffer great agony when it doesn't work out. Yet, despite all the effort put into trying to understand human behaviour, we actually know very little about Love. The feelings of Hurt, rejection,sadness,hopelessness,anger,longing,are often frightening powerful,be it a brief romance or a marriage for a years.
@Bizziebod (3497)
•
6 May 07
Personally I agree with you in that you should take with you lessons learned from old relationships. What you shouldn't do is take the bad experiences and have them as baggage so the new person doesn't feel the wrath!
@nanayangel (7879)
• Philippines
8 May 07
Hi there! Thank you very much for your response. You're right that it will be easier for everyone involved if you leave negative experiences behind and just extract the lessons from it.
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@brew2x (3094)
• Philippines
4 May 07
The best advice that I heard about love is "Love as if you've never been hurt before". Some of us get scared of giving ourselves another chance to fall in love again after a heartbreak but it doesn't mean that if somebody did us wrong before that everybody will do the same. It's really good to follow that advice so that nothing will hold us back from being happy.
@nanayangel (7879)
• Philippines
4 May 07
Hi there! Thank you very much for your response. I agree that it is important to give your best when you love someone so that you won't have any regrets in the future because you've given everything that you can. It is really risky when you love someone because you don't choose them. You just fall for them so you can't be really sure.
@joycer (498)
• Sri Lanka
4 May 07
Yes you are right. Past is past, it has passed away. If you keep on bragging about it, you are letting the person know how bad he is. You only remind him the mistakes and he might not forget about that too. If you are in a relationship and you want it to last long, like forever, you have to sacrifice.
You are happy because he is happy. Even if you are hurt. But it has to ba both who has to sacrifice, because it is a give and take relationship and not only a one way thing.
If he or she has a lot of flaws or mistakes, learn to love it, you will be dealing it everyday. Accept the person as he is, like everything about him.
@nanayangel (7879)
• Philippines
4 May 07
Hi there! Thank you very much for your response. I agree that learning to accept a person for what he is is really important because when you love a person, you'll love all of him even his flaws.
@thai11 (239)
• United States
4 May 07
I agree that you can't hold onto the past and it will hold you back. Some people get so hurt from a relationship/situation that they don't know how to let go so it can be a tricky thing!! I believe it all comes down to fear, and if people can own up to their fear so they can achieve happiness!! Tough thing to teach someone as well, i think that some things are meant to be learned by everyone themselves.
@nanayangel (7879)
• Philippines
5 May 07
Hi there! Thank you very much. I agree that past can be too powerful at times and it doesn't help that some people don't have much strength to fight their regrets and false hopefulness. I've been there and it's really sad.
@stephen_lynx (77)
• Philippines
4 May 07
learn to let go of the feelings that was once hurt you, move on the higher level, learn that love is not just a piece of cake that is sweet but its a mixture of every taste and every feelings.
love and pain, well they are twins eh, you can't know that you love unless you felt the pain. the more we hurt the more we love, ironic isnt it?
@nanayangel (7879)
• Philippines
4 May 07
Hi there! Thank you very much for your response. Yeah, I agree that love and pain are like twins. You wouldn't be able to say that you have loved unless you felt the pain because it wouldn't really hurt if you do not love the person. So we can say that we can only get hurt by the people we love.