Love

Since it is almost Valentine's Day I figured I can write a love poem, haha. That's not me. A lot of people hate Valentine's Day. I'm not one of those...probably because I don't have to get anything this year :). That always makes it sweeter, haha. Any holiday that reminds us that life is all about love is not a bad thing. Now, we do live in America and every holiday is commercialized for someone to make money, but the essence of the celebration of showing love is still a good thing. I never realized the huge difference between love and infatuation until I went through a relationship that was based on the latter. I realized that if you "fall in love"...you can fall right back out. I believe true love is connecting in the soul. It can be platonically, like the way we love our family and friends, or romantically, like the way we love a significant other. It's looking at someone and thinking they're beautiful, but knowing that if they burned their face off tomorrow you'd still love them. We always say we love somebody because we would die for them, but do we live for them? Saying you're going to die for someone is actually pretty easy seeing that there will probably never be a need for that to happen. Living for someone is love. Putting someone +above ourselves is love. The best relationships(romantic and platonic) I've been around are when both parties put the other first.

Relationships absolutely amaze me. I really think they may be the hardest things in the world to pull off and yes I do know that I'm a little jaded. I respect them and I respect anyone in one. I've been out before and met girls in relationships that wanted to see where we would go. I've walked away. One girl said, "What are you doing?" My response, "I've been the guy on the other side of that equation." The grass may look greener over there but it's probably cause it's been growing in cow crap. One friend of mine told me, "You know there are some people in this life you should hate, and since you don't, I gotta hate them for you. That puts more on me." I laughed, but I can't make myself hate people, not because I'm this good person, but for selfish reasons. I know it will only harm me and make me worse off for it.

I guess the reason I like Valentine's Day is because it doesn't just represent romantic love. To me, it represents unconditional love. My mother used to always get me Valentine's Day cards to remind me that she loved me. I am blessed to have the parents that I do because they taught me the true essence of love. It may or may not be parents, but I'm sure we all have similar people in our lives who have shown us unconditional love. Let us show love to as many people as possible, remembering that love is patient, kind and never self seeking. The bottom line is that the more people we truly love, the more our lives are enriched.