A Letter to Old Souls and Hopeless Romantics
(you are a rarity, my friend)
Dear You,
You are a beautifully rare thing and should never give up hope. Your love of Love is the glue of storylines in books and movies and tales told throughout the centuries. It is inspiring to us all —
…but I know it can be exhausting, frustrating, and downright heartbreaking at times because it comes with a price and a bit of dread too.
Let me explain.
Being a hopeless romantic or an old soul means you are a sensitive being, highly intuitive, and full of empathy. You feel the energy around you, people’s emotions and their inner worlds with accuracy, knowing immediately whether someone is worth talking to.
Because of this, you struggle with the dating scene, preferring to keep to yourself until you find someone worth giving your energy for.
When you do meet someone and feel they’re worth getting to know, you begin to care from the start. You go all in, head first, regardless of where you might land or where it might lead. You can’t help but become emotionally invested because you know… from somewhere deep inside… you’ve met this person before. You’re drawn to explore all sides of them with every side of you. For it feels so good to feel something so familiar as this.
And this is why you have trouble with casual hook-ups, friends with benefits, and situationships, which are so common in dating today. There’s not enough depth in these. Your hopeless romantic, old soul needs more than surface conversation and meaningless touch. You don’t do well in them. Honestly, you really don’t care to be in them. They’re fun for a while but end up exhausting and heartbreaking.
When you find someone worth the time and energy, you invest completely, wanting to make sure it’s real and hoping they’re feeling the same in return… which can lead you to live too much in your head, overthinking, assuming, jumping to conclusions, and most likely getting only to nowhere.
And here’s the dread.
You get frustrated and down thinking it’s useless — that you’ll never meet anyone who matches your intensity, your old soul/hopeless romantic inner world…
But (here’s the beautiful part, my friend) because of the way you are, because of your love of Love and endless belief that one day you’ll find it, you don’t give up. Your deep hope doesn’t let you. It knows you — for you’re a hope(ful)less romantic, after all. It knows your worth and holds the hope that one day your twin flame will ignite and draw you in. One of these 8 billion people here on Earth will see you, recognize you, and want to match your magnetism, if not raise you to it.
And want to know a little secret? They’re thinking of you because you’re thinking of them. Isn’t that the loveliest thought ever? ❤
You are a rarity, my friend. Never change who you are. Be who you are without worry and keep the hope. Because those who matter will see you, my dear. And those who don’t… well, it doesn’t really matter now, does it?
❤❤❤
Sabrie
