Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby — awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess. Love is an untamed force. Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves The more one judges, the less one loves. Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don’t blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being “in love”, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Love is the very difficult understanding that something other than yourself is real. Immature love says, “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says, “I need you because I love you.” Yes, emotions are contagious. People catch them from others. So, when your love is acting lovingly toward you, it’s natural for you to feel joyous, confident, smart and secure. Love is a word that is bandied around a lot and has many different meanings. Here are three of them: Romantic love is marinated in fantasy. Excitement rules the day. You are walking on air. He can do no wrong. You are the luckiest woman on earth. Nothing will ever come between the two of you. Seasoned love is marinated in caring, respect, trust and empathy. Differences are respected. Conflicts are worked out. Individuality is respected. Love grows deeper. Love grows stronger. Addictive love is marinated in desperation. You feel you cannot live without this person. You need him to feel complete. Though you no longer feel good about yourself like you did when you were “infatuated with him,” you, nevertheless, feel you can’t leave him. Love is a force of nature Love is bigger than you are Love is inherently free
Posted on: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 11:54:21 +0000
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