Love is a phenomenon with two continuous outcomes: reaching and not reaching. Since I’ve never experienced reaching, I won’t talk about it. That leaves not reaching. Based on my many experiences, I have a lot to say about it. While many have discussed the downsides and negative results of not reaching, I’ll focus on its benefits.

When you don’t reach your beloved, you:

1. Gain a deeper understanding of love and truly grasp what it means.
2. Understand what Rumi, Orhan Veli, Ahmed Kaya, and several others are talking about.
3. Comprehend what music really is and why it even exists.
4. Start writing, and other people’s writings also become meaningful to you.
5. Instead of frustration 20 years after reaching, you daydream today about the next 20 years and live out different outcomes in your mind.
6. Get to know everything your beloved cares about to understand them better.
7. Keep your beloved as they were the moment you fell in love, preventing aging, illness, or any other change in your imagination.
8. Instead of thinking about rising living costs or currency rates, you ponder the curl of your beloved’s hair.
9. Spend every empty and lifeless moment thinking about how your beloved laughs so you never forget how beautiful it is.
10. Write in the comments how much you agree with this post.

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