Never Take Love for Granted
Loving people in the way they should be loved.
Each time I think of love taken for granted, I think of Diddy Sean Combs rapper and mogul. Im sure you’re reading this sideways. What on earth is this article referencing? I am referencing Sean Combs’s long-time lover and best friend, Kim Porter.
Kim Porter died of pneumonia at just the age of 47 years old in 2018. Sean was devastated. She was young, and her death was just unexpected. He made an Instagram commiserating her death. He expressed how he should have married her and how he should not have taken her love for granted.
It is a strong bottomless feeling to take on what you could have done differently while the person was still living. Sean and Kim had children together. Kim stayed by his side even when he had public girlfriends and kids with other women. She always loved him and was still his best friend. That love was taken for granted because he saw that it didn’t matter what he did Kim was still going to support him, so what was the rush?
Watching something like this play out in real life is probably one of the scariest feelings. It is scary because it’s not anything you would wish on anyone, and it’s not anything you would want to go through. It is a taken aback feeling that makes you sit and think of how you should move in life.
I’ve sat and thought of people in my life that I love unconditionally. It’s an unsettling feeling of loving someone but waking up the next day to that person being gone forever. As humans, we tend to push things off until tomorrow, then the next week, you look up, and it has been a year. Tomorrow is never promised, and I feel to not live in regret you live in the now.
I say move and love in a way that is meaningful. If a person is taken from you the next day, you won’t regret it. You will feel that you have loved them in the way that they should have been loved.
