Love. Trust. Pain. Forgiveness

March 30, 2013 – It was my special day then. After a series of birthday celebrations from one set of friends to another, my fellow young single ladies and I decided to follow the mob – and off we went to the movie house for the exciting romantic sequel of Sarah Geronimo and John Lloyd Cruz’s “It Takes a Man and a Woman.”

I remember myself being so curious of the story line. I kept asking myself: What is it this time? I eventually resigned and anxiously waited for the big twist. If being able to cry during the movie is equated with its high quality, then I would gladly give it two thumbs up. But then again, we don’t measure it through the amount of tears we shed.

Love, trust, pain, and forgiveness have inhabited my mind since then.

Love, for one, is bathed with mystery. It can break all impossibilities. It can bring you to the heights of human emotions that only those who are capable of loving can experience. It is enveloped with magic, with sweet promises, and with the laudable whispers of a lover’s heart. It knows no evil and wishes no harm for the beloved.

Trust is wholly given by a heart that offers genuine love to a willing heart. But when is it broken? Is it when love has become a one-sided affair or is it when one is honest enough to reveal the harsh truth of a fading love? When is trust kept? Is it when one has stood firm despite challenges encountered?

Reaching far for love is synonymous to falling hard for love. Pain. Ouch! Who can describe the pain that a broken heart has given you? How do you differentiate the pain brought by a vanishing love and that of a broken trust? How do you mend a crumbled heart, along with its perishing hopes and dreams? Do you feel the pain, move on immediately - or do you retaliate?

A heart that has loved truly has somehow mastered the art of letting go. Forgiveness. It is when letting go is the best option. When one has suffered enough for love’s sake, forgiving truly will make the hurt a winner. It may take months, years, decades, or a lifetime before one can totally let go of that seed of love; but just as a simple token to yourself, will forgiveness pave the way to inner healing?

Tears reveal the depth of love a couple shares with each other. For all that might have been.

When love is pure and real, it is bound to last. But if one chooses to break the other, it is sure to leave a deep scar that will forever remain as love’s testimony.

If letting go and moving on seem best, it will be. But if being truly honest means re-examining the deepest chambers of your heart, there might be hope of restoring what was broken. You hope for the best.

If you have gone through all these, there must be hope in any form that lies suspended in your trusting heart. Change. There has to be metamorphosis, no matter how little it is. And that rainbow in your heart will mark the beginning of a better life, a better you, and a happier tomorrow.