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I was talking with my cousin saturday, who is the most intelligent 9 year old on the planet, and she asked me "Why is it that everyone just wants to fall in love, like in the movies?" I responded with an "idk cally."
She then responded with that jaw dropping wise 9 year old comment that makes her my favorite cousin, "Well if everyone does want to fall in love, they sure arnt doin a very good job of it."
I thought alot about what she had observed. We all are so caught up with the feelin of being in "Love". That excitement...that wonder. We love it...we eat it up! We feel it when we watch chick flicks (applies for guys who watch chick flicks like me :P), or when we see a touchin moment on tv, or when we see a couple wrapped up in each other, or when we see an elderly couple still holding hands.
The only problem with that is that they are just feelings...and feeling lose their potency over time. We get so caught up with the "feeling" of love that we go from person to person to keep the feeling.
We are addicted to "love"
like a cheap drug or wine
I dont want the addiction...I dont want the fix.
As a hopeless romantic i often times long to experince the "feeling"
the fast heartbeat, the tightness in my chest. The excitement can be consuming....but so can the hurt.
The very reason that makes love a "feeling" is the same reason that makes love a "hurt"
By living from one fix to the other, one gf or bf to the next, we open ourselves to heartache. And Heartache is the most painful thing imaginable. It cause you to listen to slow sad songs and make the world just a few shades grayer.
I was never into the "hurt"...but it always came...no matter how many times i told myself it would happen "this time"
and yet it always did...i always ended up in a world turned grey.
So wat do we do?
I think the question is "what is our definition of love?"
is it just a "feeling" or is it a way of "living" and "thinking"
it has only been recently that i have lived a "loving" lifestyle. and i have learned just a bit about relationships.
When we live in a "loving lifestyle" we emanate love, we breathe it, speak it, act it, scream it, dance it, strum it, sing it, ect ect.
I think wen we "live" love, we move past just the feeling. We dont only experience love, but we become it. And when we become it, we love with more than just feeling, but with character and spirit. And that causes a relationship to be beautiful and whole, not just a series of "feelings", of "excitement" and "heartache".
"love" is an addiction...a fix we crave, so we dont feel so alone.
Love is a lifestyle that breeds beauty and sweetness, and most importantly
Fullness
Zach Nelson
Club Retro Intern & 1st Year RCSSM Student
She then responded with that jaw dropping wise 9 year old comment that makes her my favorite cousin, "Well if everyone does want to fall in love, they sure arnt doin a very good job of it."
I thought alot about what she had observed. We all are so caught up with the feelin of being in "Love". That excitement...that wonder. We love it...we eat it up! We feel it when we watch chick flicks (applies for guys who watch chick flicks like me :P), or when we see a touchin moment on tv, or when we see a couple wrapped up in each other, or when we see an elderly couple still holding hands.
The only problem with that is that they are just feelings...and feeling lose their potency over time. We get so caught up with the "feeling" of love that we go from person to person to keep the feeling.
We are addicted to "love"
like a cheap drug or wine
I dont want the addiction...I dont want the fix.
As a hopeless romantic i often times long to experince the "feeling"
the fast heartbeat, the tightness in my chest. The excitement can be consuming....but so can the hurt.
The very reason that makes love a "feeling" is the same reason that makes love a "hurt"
By living from one fix to the other, one gf or bf to the next, we open ourselves to heartache. And Heartache is the most painful thing imaginable. It cause you to listen to slow sad songs and make the world just a few shades grayer.
I was never into the "hurt"...but it always came...no matter how many times i told myself it would happen "this time"
and yet it always did...i always ended up in a world turned grey.
So wat do we do?
I think the question is "what is our definition of love?"
is it just a "feeling" or is it a way of "living" and "thinking"
it has only been recently that i have lived a "loving" lifestyle. and i have learned just a bit about relationships.
When we live in a "loving lifestyle" we emanate love, we breathe it, speak it, act it, scream it, dance it, strum it, sing it, ect ect.
I think wen we "live" love, we move past just the feeling. We dont only experience love, but we become it. And when we become it, we love with more than just feeling, but with character and spirit. And that causes a relationship to be beautiful and whole, not just a series of "feelings", of "excitement" and "heartache".
"love" is an addiction...a fix we crave, so we dont feel so alone.
Love is a lifestyle that breeds beauty and sweetness, and most importantly
Fullness
Zach Nelson
Club Retro Intern & 1st Year RCSSM Student
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