Worth It

You convince yourself that you can survive this. Even though you're just giving, giving, giving - without asking anything in return. You convince yourself that it doesn't matter if he doesn't reciprocate, and you continue to give, continue to love, even if it goes more or less unacknowledged.

But what you never realised was how much you needed The Other's gratitude till you got it. How much you needed your efforts to be appreciated. To be seen.  How much you needed him to not just hear, but to listen.

And in that moment, when he does, everything else seems so insignificant, because even though he may not reciprocate you know, you just know, that you haven't loved in vain.