I love this animation by Julia Pott.

Via Book by it’s Cover

Crushes happen, and they still do to many people. I had crushes when I was young too, and my earliest recollection of these events were that I was rejected most of the time. Horrendously, embarrassingly so.

The only crush I have now is of an actor (I’m not going to mention names here…), but it seems weird to ol’ realistic me to have crushes. I used to think that I may never find a person who would love me back. Pickings out there is rather slim and with my type-A personality, I’d have frightened off all the good ones before they came near.

So I stopped trying so hard.

And I just went about being me, happy and contented. And that’s where the magic happens. I realised that all my life, if the big guy up there was trying to tell me something, it’s that I shouldn’t try so hard sometimes. No overthinking. Just go with the flow and just do things that I like. And when I stopped trying so hard, things happen for me. Fun things, great things, everything.

And that’s one thing I’m still trying to learn — how to let go and just throw caution to the wind.