Love and Pain

This is for the girls who have the tendency to stay up all night listening to music that reminds them of their current situation. Who hide their fears, pain and tears behind their smiles and laughs all on a daily basis.

The girls who pray things will work out just once and they’ll be satisfied. The girls who scream and cry into their pillows at night because the rest of the world fails to listen to them. The girls who have it hard but don’t let anyone know that. The girls who may never have it easy and usually end up being called someone who is “playing hard to get”.

The girls who have so many secrets but will never tell anyone. The girls who have regrets and mistakes in their lives. The girls who don’t always win, who may never win. The girls who stay up all night thinking about that one boy wondering if he’ll ever notice her. The girls who get what they’re given and don’t throw a fit. The girls who take life as it comes, hoping it’ll get easier somewhere down the road. The girls who love with all their hearts but always end up heart-broken. This is for real Namibian girls.

You really love him, don’t you? He can tear you apart, say mean things to you and make you wish you’d never met him, but at the end of the day, he’s the only one you want to be with, right? Since the day you met him you knew you wanted to be with him forever.

Even now, after all this time, you still get butterflies when you see him walking towards you. And even though you fight a lot, you always seem to find a way through it.

Because even though he makes you cry, there’s no one else who can make you happier than he does.

Your friends sometimes tell you that you deserve so much better, but you always find yourself telling them that you just can’t let him go. You hang up on him when he says something stupid, even though you know you’re going to answer the phone when he calls you right back 10 seconds later.

You’ll have this major fight during the day, but he’ll still text you good night and tell you that he still loves you. And you’ll reply saying the same. And the truth is you’d rather have bad times with him than have good times with anyone else.

No matter how many times you say that you hate him, you know you never will. You love him more than anything.

You don’t care what you’re doing, as long as you’re with him, that’s enough. And you know he’s always going to be that one guy who will always have your heart. Love is sweet, but painful.

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