Mikaela

Love is a gamble.
If you know what you want, go ahead and bet.
Once you're in, you are bound to
Lose or Win.
That's the rule, that's the theory.
Take it or leave it.
Be Fearless.
Be selfless.
Love boldly and passionately as if it were your first love.
If you get lucky, you may win his love.
If your luck is tough, you might lose all that you have given.
So what?
At least you were brave enough to try.
Some people never tried.
At least your life won't be senseless, cause of your heartache.
Of course there are times when you wish you didn't have a heart so you can be free from that pain.
But you are a human being, and it is all those joy and sorrow and imperfections that makes your presence so beautiful.
I must learn to make peace with pain. For if it weren't for pain, how do I feel joy?
Joy and pain come hand in hand.
Like the poem of John Keats "Ode on Melancholy".
an excerpt
"She dwells with Beauty—Beauty that must die;
And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips
Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh,
Turning to poison while the bee-mouth sips:
Ay, in the very temple of Delight
Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine,
Though seen of none save him whose strenuous tongue
Can burst Joy's grape against his palate fine;
His soul shall taste the sadness of her might,
And be among her cloudy trophies hung."

This website helped me a lot in understanding this poem
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/melancholy.html