Love Is Like Open Heart Surgery

-A self portrait narrative-

They say that love is like putting your heart out on the line.

There’s always a risk.

Sometimes, it comes with great reward and heartthrob, and other times, accompanied by great loss and heartache.

The bravery of opening the heart is like trusting a surgeon to perform open heart surgery. There is a risk. And hopefully worth it.

If you have ever been brave enough to:

Hold a hand.

Then let it go.

Say “Yes”.

Say “Goodbye”.

Open your heart.

Sew up it’s broken pieces.

Write a love letter.

Then a breakup letter.

Begin a chapter.

Write it’s end.

Feel butterflies in your chest.

Then pull out a knife.

Do life with someone.

And then run for your life

from someone.

Commit.

Sever.

Laugh.

Cry.

Begin.

End.

Bear a scar, yet a healed story…

Then you too understand that love is just as risky as open heart surgery.