Post by Lainee on Jun 27, 2006 22:18:47 GMT -5
Share your ideas, thoughts, views, feelings, songs, poems and anything about LOVE.. Here's mine:
A lot of stuff kept bubbling on my mind. Through those, I will find the light I needed so long ago.
After two different but both tragic past relationships I had, I've become the person I should be. STRONG. Since then, no matter how wonderful a guy is and no matter how much I like the guy, I end up avoiding the thoughts and feelings. Maybe it was because of the trauma I got from my past encounters especially with that of the one from the "superficial world." He left me sad and blue when I was young and true. He broke this brittle heart of mine. It took me a year or two before I finally decided to move on. As I moved on, I began to see love as for unlucky folk. Love was but a curse, the reason why I also broke one's heart as a revenge. And that, I think, is worse.
But GOD amazingly works in ways we cannot completely comprehend. I realized that being STRONG doesn't count on how many times you avoided thoughts and feelings to grow. It's not also the matter of hurting others as to rebel. But being STRONG means being BRAVE enough to love again despite the heart-breaking experiences. It means taking the risks and consequences of loving. So I prayed for someone to teach me how to love again. Besides, I miss being in love. I didn't expect (I didn't even wish) another one from the world which I started to hate. It happened and I'm just grateful and glad it did, it caused a more complicated story though. Still, a belief arised : that love has nothing to do with what you're expecting to get, it's what you're expected to give - which is everything.
Vanished dreams and diminished happiness brought about by the love in the past turned into thoughts, feelings, hopes, delights and passions of love at present. As James Baldwin stated "Love takes off masks which we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within", I am now cutting off my head and placing my foot on love again. The requirements of a lover (as cited by Leo Buscaglia) - the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the schooler and the fortitude of the certain are all with me this time plus the genuine and tender caring of a nurse.
It's true that love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes be an illusion. So learn to love without expecting for reciprocity. Learn to love with no selfish motives. Unconditional love, that is. Then when you find the one you love loves you too, you will know it is real when he doesn't love you because you are beautiful but you are beautiful because he loves you. And that's the SPIRIT!
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"Ama me fideliter! Fidem meam noto: De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota." / "Love me faithfully! See how I am faithful: with all my heart and all my soul I am with you though I am far away." - Anonymous
A lot of stuff kept bubbling on my mind. Through those, I will find the light I needed so long ago.
After two different but both tragic past relationships I had, I've become the person I should be. STRONG. Since then, no matter how wonderful a guy is and no matter how much I like the guy, I end up avoiding the thoughts and feelings. Maybe it was because of the trauma I got from my past encounters especially with that of the one from the "superficial world." He left me sad and blue when I was young and true. He broke this brittle heart of mine. It took me a year or two before I finally decided to move on. As I moved on, I began to see love as for unlucky folk. Love was but a curse, the reason why I also broke one's heart as a revenge. And that, I think, is worse.
But GOD amazingly works in ways we cannot completely comprehend. I realized that being STRONG doesn't count on how many times you avoided thoughts and feelings to grow. It's not also the matter of hurting others as to rebel. But being STRONG means being BRAVE enough to love again despite the heart-breaking experiences. It means taking the risks and consequences of loving. So I prayed for someone to teach me how to love again. Besides, I miss being in love. I didn't expect (I didn't even wish) another one from the world which I started to hate. It happened and I'm just grateful and glad it did, it caused a more complicated story though. Still, a belief arised : that love has nothing to do with what you're expecting to get, it's what you're expected to give - which is everything.
Vanished dreams and diminished happiness brought about by the love in the past turned into thoughts, feelings, hopes, delights and passions of love at present. As James Baldwin stated "Love takes off masks which we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within", I am now cutting off my head and placing my foot on love again. The requirements of a lover (as cited by Leo Buscaglia) - the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the schooler and the fortitude of the certain are all with me this time plus the genuine and tender caring of a nurse.
It's true that love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes be an illusion. So learn to love without expecting for reciprocity. Learn to love with no selfish motives. Unconditional love, that is. Then when you find the one you love loves you too, you will know it is real when he doesn't love you because you are beautiful but you are beautiful because he loves you. And that's the SPIRIT!
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"Ama me fideliter! Fidem meam noto: De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota." / "Love me faithfully! See how I am faithful: with all my heart and all my soul I am with you though I am far away." - Anonymous