Remember when you were 7 or 8 years old and you met someone who was 25 and you thought;"Dang they are old!" At 7 time is so simple. In the movie "Fever Pitch" Jimmy Fallon's character asks Drew Barrymore's character if she still loved anything or anyone for 20 years or even ten years. After thinking about it she said I should hope not. "Why not?" I thought. Why would you not love someone or something for 20 years? OK, he was referring to the Red Sox, and we baseball fans tend to remain loyal our entire lives. What about our families? We love our families for our entire lives. If we are lucky that love lasts for 50 or 60 years. Some folks stay married for 60 years, that is love. I have the same best friend my whole life. I mean from birth till this very moment she and I have been best friends. Oh sure we have had "our moments" the love though that has always existed. What of God? If you are a believer then his love has filled you and carried you your whole life. That is love. Parents love their children forever. When our children soar we glide with them. When they struggle, our hearts break;: there is no time limit or expiration date on love; certainly the divorce rate may lead one to conclude that love is not forever. I'll concede people may fall out out love however I believe there is still love between them. Throughout our lives we love people, pets, and yes baseball teams-and that love lasts 20 or 30 years, probably longer. So what is love? Love is forgiveness, love is acceptance, love is making mistakes without fear of losing everything. Love is sitting with your best friend and no words need to be spoken. Love is the butterflies when you look in your partner's eyes. Love is riding a roller coaster when your stomach is churning. Love is letting go knowing when you get back your friends and family will still be there. Love is chicken soup and saltines when your sick, a hug when your sad, or the laughter that brings you to tears. Yes, sometimes love is heartbreak and loss and a whole in your heart which can not be filled-love remains long after the loss and it grow deeper the more you open yourself to it's possibilities. Love is not measured by time or distance-it is depth and meaning-and, yes I believe it lasts forever. No it won't pay the rent and it does not always mean you can live together-it will still fill your days and it can make your nights long. For a baseball fan love is spring when the World Series is possible-love let's you believe what logic denies. Perhaps we are better served by logical thinking...Nah, let love guide you! So, have you ever loved someone or something for 20 years? If you can respond with a "yes" then say thank you. You are blessed! I am blessed because I can say yes over and over and over and over-through the good and the bad through the tears and all the years I have known love, I know love-20/30/40 years and I'm not done. I'll go the distance with an open heart even when such faith will cause loss and thus pain-I'll take it all. Every little drop, wink, laugh, quiet moment, hug, goodness I'll take love for all the gifts and I will give love for all the joy-and in the feeling of and knowing of love I am blessed. And as the song says; "Love Hurts" and sometimes "Love Stinks" Losing someone you love, well that is awful - saying goodfbye forever - It is our loss though; Is it better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all? No, it better to love and never lose - too bad life does not work that way. Though I reckon it is love which gets us through the loss with the belief we will be reunited - if you believe in that. I do, for sure, and sometimes knowing I will be with my Mommie and Little Gram again - that just makes me giddy. A while back when we had to evacuate because of the wildfires I took a picture of my Mommie, Little Gram, Little Gram's High School Diploma, my pets, and of course my family; That's it! When it came down to it that was what I loved enough. Sometimes I think the word "love" gets thrown around too much...that picture is lovely, you look lovely today, I love hot dogs, don't you love the Mets? Isn't the fact that love is everywhere in our lives more evidence of it's power. Can we use the word love too much? I suppose so. Anything can be used too much - but love? No way! Love and Love and Love somemore; you can love the day, love your car, love Mountain Dew - Go ahead, spread the love and let it flow from you in your words, actions, thoughts, deeds,..when love lets you down; find more love, it is out there - it is in you! Oh, I know loving material posessions is frowned upon - or probably we shoudn't love objects or things. I would love to have more money - What's wrong with that? If I had more money life would be easier, my mind free, and I could love even more!
What is love? I don't know - does anybody? Love is everything even when it is nothing - Love fills you up and empties you out - Love just does anything, allows us anything, the power of love...it is incomprehensible. Poets, writers, dreamers, even politicians bring love into their work - we bring love into our lives, we are given love, we give love, we feel love, we grieve love, we yearn for love - Geez Louise, love really is everything - How cool is that?
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