Some time ago, I ran into the quote “Love fails us, that’s because we fail love first”. At that time, I never fully understood what that saying meant, as far as my own interpretation. Love fails at least more than once in our lifetime. Love isn’t perfect. Never was, never is & never will it ever be.

I believe it is bound to happen to each & everyone of us. Sometimes, we tend to focus too much on the bitter love past has brought us. Therefore, somewhat, somehow along the way, the fear of falling in love, the fear of being in love, the fear of mere love dictates our paths into building us closed guarded walls. Leads us to running & hiding to the sole thing we know deep into our hearts we truly desire.

To be honest with you, at one point I thought I have grew cold hearted, I thought I never wanted to be vulnerable for love. I thought I would never let love back into my very heart, my very soul. Just because love has broke me in the past, just because love left awful & painful memories, just because love, or what I thought was love had failed me so many times in my life, does not mean I am not going to continue believing in love. 

Love may have failed us, and we may have failed love, but it we continue fighting for love, I trust love to continue fighting for us.

- Carmela David