"that's bare minimum..."

really... we're all just trying our best.

We were so invested in raising the bar higher, as to what a bare minimum would look like, that we've forgotten to appreciate the little things our lover does for us.

Love happens in between... when you choose to pick up your lover after a long day at work, that you'd just want to go home and bury your head on your pillow.

...

We see love displayed in grandiose ways on social media. It was fun at first and then suddenly... what we see, we envy... what we see, we want to be.

Which is not wrong to a point—we have all the right to dream. I just hate to see relationships fall apart over efforts un-celebrated.

We all deserve a love that makes us feel seen and heard. A love makes you feel special. I just hope we'd have more grace for our partners.

I hope you choose to let happiness take over, when you see the partly-wilted flowers, 'coz he went through hell to get to that dinner you wanted.

I hope you still thank your partner when he treats you to a taco bell. I hope our knowledge of what we deserve does not bloat our ego into entitlement.

Because they're trying their best... they are. We all are. We're all just trying to figure things out. Let's make each other happy in this life.

Nag mamahal,

Owen

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