Second-best?

I never understood how people can agree to being second-best in love.

Don't you deserve to be the priority? Don't you deserve to be someone's bright star? Don't you deserve to be with the one who thinks about you before they go to sleep and after they wake up? The one who will be proud to have you on his arms and show off to his friends? The one who will do anything to be with you? The one who chooses to be with you day in, day out?

Why do you have to settle for someone who can, at best, give you leftover love? Especially when that someone happens to be unavailable already.

If he wants you, he'll stake a claim on you. It's human nature. When we see something/someone we want/like/need/{insert the right word}, then we want to own it. We want it for ourselves.

Don't give your heart to someone whose heart already belongs to someone else.

As the saying goes, "never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option".