Sick and Disgusted... ( A Vent/Rant)

Only now was I able to think properly on what to say about what I saw. Okay, where do I even begin with this one.....

I will not name names, but someone I never liked did something truly horrible yesterday. If you actually "love" someone, then you want them to be happy. Like Olaf (from Disney's Frozen) said, "Love is putting someone's needs before yours..."  That's always been my belief about what "true love" is.

This person who claimed to "love" someone however, did the exact opposite of that....going so far as to blackmail someone with the threat of harming themselves unless they dumped their special someone and went with the person instead. Now I never liked this person in the first place, but this was a new low even for them: it was abusive, and disgusting on SO many levels. The person in question even said they'd slit their wrists if the other didnt "come back to him", even though they werent even ever together in the first place. I feel really bad for the other person and their special someone now, they didn't deserve this crap at all.

I never had a real relationship before, and Im not exactly in any hurry now, but I do know enough about love thanks to my own experiences and crushes in the past years, plus what I learned from close friends and their advices too. Here's some of them I learned. They're from an old close friend of mine's journal on the subject, but I feel they'd be relevant here too:

• Love is unconditional, it is not about 'I love you, because...', rather it's 'I love you for being you'.

• Love is not about being physically present for each other, but being present within each other's minds and hearts.

• Love is not always about similarities, but of mutual respect and understanding for each other.

• Love takes time, do not rush. Cherish it with as much time as you need for it to grow big enough to become your home.

• Love takes patience. Conflicts break out, misunderstandings arise; but try to talk it over than to make things worse.

• Love is not blind. Desire and fantasies blind you, love lights your way to the person who is meant for you.

I've felt this way about the subject for a long time now, and after what I witnessed yesterday, I felt I just had to say something...Love is a truly special and wonderful thing, no matter who you are. But some people out there dont seem to know the difference between true love and desire/obsession, its rather saddening....

Im really sorry for such a long random journal and vent, I just wanted to get this off my chest after the incident I saw. Guess thats everything I can think of saying for now, so I hope everyone has a wonderful day, and I guess thank you for your time in reading this. Have a good day everyone.