Putting someone's needs above your own

Putting someone's needs above your own

Recently, I saw an old video that when I watched it, yet again, it broke my heart. It was this older woman who fell in love with a younger man. This was the love of her life, and he felt the same way. But after being together for a few years, she realized that he desperately wanted children and her children were already grown.

She knew she had to let him go as much as this would kill her because she couldn't deprive him of the blessings of children. 

For 3 more years, they went back and forth with each other, neither one of them wanting to let go. She decided that she would find someone for him, and eventually she did, and not telling either one of them she introduced them, and they hit it off. She then had a friend call her so she had the opportunity to leave them to get to know each other.

She walked out of his life, changed her number, and never contacted him again. 4 years later, she is invited to his gallery opening and sees him. Then, all of a sudden, this little girl runs up to her and says, "Are you the fairy my parents talk of?"

This is the truest form of love when you love someone that much that you are willing to put their happiness over your own.

This story resonates so much because I could have been the one speaking in this video. I know how hard it is to do this, and yet my love for this person was so strong that it made me walk away because I also knew he wanted children. 

You will never experience that type of love unless you are forced to walk away from someone with whom you had the almost perfect relationship with. To know that you want their happiness over your own.

Especially in today's world where everything is about me, me, me, there are few people who would actually do this.

So today, my friends, I truly hope you get to experience this type of unselfish love because even as bad as it may hurt you to walk away, it also teaches you what unconditional love is. It teaches you to be unselfish, it teaches you that true love isn't just about you or what you want but if you truly love someone you will put their needs over your own, you will want them happy even if it means sacrificing your own happiness. That, my friends, is the truest form of love.

"Be the change you want to see,"

@TreadmillTreats