Hold On

Crystal Southerland once said, ~Love is like a balloon...when you push your relationship with someone forward it is like blowing up a balloon. If you blow too hard and too fast the balloon pops and likewise the relationship breaks. But if you take things slowly and let the balloon of love stretch on its own, it grows into a huge, prosperous balloon full of love. Also, if you don't push the relationship at all or at least hold it at the same level it was at, the air flows out of the balloon, deflating it, and your love will shrivel up and become flat and lifeless. So when you are in love, push the relationship forward slowly and gently and the balloon will grow comfortably into a strong immense love.~ Let me ask you this question, do you believe that you can never go too far when it comes to "blowing up" the balloon of love/true love?

As said before in the beginning quote, love is like a balloon and the amount of love you in all intensive purposes breathe into it determines whether you're committed to filling it fully or just stopping half way. Essentially when it comes to matters of the heart you can most definitely find yourself not only mentally and physically pushing forward, but emotionally as well. For it's a scary and tough situation indeed to make the decision to go from being just a friend to wanting to be more than a friend. Every person has been or currently is in a situation where you're, in a way, breathing into the heart of a special someone slowly filling it with a certain amount of trust, security, honesty, care, hope, faith, love, tenderness, respect, contentment, etc. because too much can cause it to metaphorically pop in your face, which is an unfortunate experience quite a few people have been through.

If you think about it, there have been countless relationships in the past where the balloon of love has been deflated, in a manner of speaking, because of not pushing forward hard enough. What do I mean? You see, for a certain number of people they have given up too easily on relationships because it's just too hard to deal with whereby letting all the love he/she supposedly has for a potential and/or significant other escape causing it either end up blowing back in their face or flying around inevitably falling to the ground shriveled, empty, and lifeless. Thinking about it, it's those who give up too easily on love who aren't willing to push themselves mentally, emotionally, physically, as well as, spiritually till their red in the face. What it comes down to is putting the work in to make a relationship last, which I'm sad to say is quite rare these days.

For the question can be asked to those who are in a potential and/or significant relationship, how many of you have ever established a closeness where feelings and emotions bonded you together in the balloon of love when you first stretched out the balloon of friendship? I think it would be safe to say every person at some point physically stretched a balloon so that it will be able to not only easily inflate, but make room for more air to fill it. Without a doubt, when you give time in establishing a friendship before love ever happens you have room for growth between the two of you. Oftentimes, by allowing room for growth you're able to gradually stretch, so to speak, each other's hearts to where you don't have to ever worry/fear of quite possibly over filling it with endless amounts of trust, happiness, honesty, respect, hope, faith, love, contentment, etc. that will have it burst just like a balloon.

In retrospect, when you believe you've met the right person you do your best to keep the balloon of love you have with him/her inflated. Of course, there will be times where the air will leak out because of stupid mistakes, which become lessons learned. For the most part, you just have to continue supporting and not quitting on each other when you think there is no more air left in the relationship allowing it to become all shriveled up. Unfortunately, there are people out there rather twisted and/or bored who simply enjoy popping the balloon of true happiness wanting nothing more than to see a couple deflate right before their eyes. In the end, to those have found/met their love/true love hold on to each other not too tightly where you "pop" him/her letting all the air out but not too gently either where he/she can easily slip from your fingers to float away to possibly never be seen again.