Free-falling.

We should never use the three sweetest words on Earth, "I love you" lightly.

It gives rise to expectations. It makes people think of spending the rest of their lives with someone. It makes people long for something that is just out of reach.

"Sometimes, we create our own heartbreak through expectations."

Loving someone is a monumental - and sometimes painful - task.

It hurts to love someone so much that you can't imagine not having him or her in your life when that possibility is getting bigger and bigger each day. It hurts to think that all the goddamn happy memories that you used to play over and over again in your mind before you go to sleep with a smile may soon become the nightmares that plague your dreams.

Loving someone is a weakness.

You are blinded to their flaws, and even if your close family or friends might repeatedly warn and advise you to stop being a slave to the heart, you are unable to let go. We keep believing that things are going to take a turn for the better, so much so that it crushes us when it doesn't.

Hope is a cruel, cruel thing.

Living creatures all resist change. We crave that sense of familiarity and cling to it like a lifeline. This is why many of us get back together with our ex's even though we know that nothing is going to change. We want to settle back into the old same routine because it comforts us and allows us to feel that the ground we are walking on is solid once more, even if it's all just a mere illusion.

I guess you can say that deep down, we are all too weak and scared to admit to ourselves when an integral part of our life is over because we dread taking that next step into the unknown, where everything will be foreign and alien to us.

I admit that I'm a coward when it comes to love, but who isn't?

We are all scared of taking the leap of faith and diving headfirst into a pool that might not even be filled with enough water to help you break your fall. Love is what gives you the courage to recklessly do so, while your sense of survival will cause you to hesitate.

Love always wins.

If you never try, you never know right?

But once you take the plunge, there's no way back.

You are in free-fall, and the only way is down, all the way hoping that you didn't make the wrong decision.