The Blades of Love.
Jul 28 '05
The Bottom Line In order to give true love we must first love ourselves. We must appreciate and value the grandiosity of what we are.
The Blades of Affection
The wind is there, I can see it with my eyes. How can you feel something and not see it? How can you hear something and not understand it? We’ve been there. Loved someone that didn’t love us back. Had someone love us and rejected their affection. Fallen in love. Fallen out of love. It’s a game the gods will play on us for the rest of eternity. The luck of romance is dispersed and like a roulette wheel, sometimes we have no idea where we will land. Like a sunrise, these things will keep occurring because the nature of what love is. Or the misconceptions of what it may be. We grow. We learn. Sometimes we die. And then are born again. The conception of life is ongoing and takes on metaphorical dimensions within us. Like the birth of a new friend. Or the birth of a new love. Or the birth of our own new love.
Yes, that is the caveat to this all. In order to give true love we must first love ourselves. We must appreciate and value the grandiosity of what we are. Our human nobility and desire to grow. Our flaws and shortcomings. We should look at these not in disdain but as a work in progress. A look in the mirror will show us more than our mere physical appearance. It is a glimpse of what we see ourselves as. Do we appreciate what we see? Do we value what lies in front of us? I don’t mean this as an egotistical and neurotic love of one’s appearance such as a greased up bodybuilder in a gym; this takes the form of looking at oneself and saying “I like what I see because you are me and I am you.” Simple. Feeling complete. Being able to let go of wanting someone else. That is true love. It will come, it is a process. And there is no plan or map to go about finding it. So obviously if somebody wanted directions it would be difficult to give. Take a left on first love. Make a right on being dumped. Go for miles until you hit the city of what am I doing with this person. You’ll go for awhile until you hit I’ll break this persons heart. Then you will come to maybe this is the one avenue. Whoops, I’m sorry, it’s actually the next street, the street of the true ideal mate. Yeah, that’s how you get there. If it were only so simple.
As I approach the age of 24 I have realized a lot about myself. I actually have this smirk on my face thinking about my first love. It’s ironic, I left her first. Then, she left me. At the extremely old age of 18 I thought my world was over. Oh lord, why have you done this to me? Why oh why? She was the one! Hah! Well there were a few more “the one’s” after that. If I were to look at that 18 year old and talk to him right now I would tell him, “buddy, you have no idea how you will see the world in 5 years.” Life is a process. Things happen. We need to keep our head up and keep moving forward. Once we get to know ourselves and explore the nature of who we are, then we are ready to give love. And it will come. It is something that you cannot force to happen. It’s like expecting a flower to sprout from the seed two days after it has been planted. It needs to be nourished. It needs time to set it’s roots. Then it can grow into a beautiful flower.
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