Love Story... or is it?

There is a moment in everyone’s life when you chew on the end of the stick that life presents to you, and you question if you still like the flavor. Do you move on to discover what other new, exciting and fresh flavors are out there, or do you hold onto the flavor that you have knowing that “The grass is not always greener on the other side”?

One soulmate, one lover, one friend, one fighter – is there really only one person in this entire Universe that can understand you?

We live in a world where Fantasy and Romance join hand in hand to form a strong, over-powering relationship that tends to seep into the lives and hearts of the single crew and leaves them begging, wanting, praying for a sense, even a drop of unconditional happiness and love found from within this relationship.

When this drop, this fix get’s met, we carry on with our lives content that we have found The One – well, it has to be The One, doesn’t it? After all, they did give you the satisfaction your heart craved when you needed it? – and for many of us, that one hit, that one fix never seems to be the last.

Many people are content with what they find in the beginning, ready and able to accept that they are happy and no longer need anything else in their life. They no longer find themselves asking the question “What if?”

But there is a larger majority, a majority that is blessed, happy, financially-emotionally-mentally-physically safe that continues to ask that one simple question. It is these people who break away from the norm and become the substitutes. It is these people who question if that next stick’s flavor, that life has to offer, will be better and it is these people, who for the rest of their lives, will struggle to find complete happiness, will struggle to feel completely safe, completely comfortable, completely … complete.  

At the end of the day, when one takes a step back from life and looks around, the question you need to ask yourself is; are you the Lucky romantic that got away with love on the first round – the one the love story was written about, or are you the Substitute that never finds completeness – the one the love story was written for?

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