I tend to believe that in every connection I've ever made, it is expected of them to return the magnitude of the efforts I made in the connection. Meet-me-in-the-middle kind of mentality, love is 50/50 believers.
I couldn't have been more right. Everything that you go out of your way to maintain is exploitation. No flowery languages here, this is some bitter shit I swallowed while asphyxiating on the deathbed of so-called love. One-sided anything is just a cruel lamentation of affection. You gave every single thing you've got to prove the mountainous heap of affection you kept in you, yet, you are to receive none. Or when one demand respect but is unable to show none.
I don't know about you, the one who's reading this, but I wouldn't waste a lot of me on one person who doesn't appreciate any pieces of me.
For me, redamancy should exist in every connection: lovers, friendship, groupwork, housemates, student-teacher, parent-child. All except one, human-cat (they're independent beings, never on the mercy of any other beings).
But alas, as a general rule, 50/50 is only a good measure for most connections.
Have you ever loved someone so purely that you love them just to love and not to be loved back?
On this scale, a 100/0.
You will either choke on your deathbed by your own expectations for someone you created inside your head or you will learn the hard way what sincerity is all about.
