All you need ...

Ahhh love. A tricky, complicated four-letter word that everyone thinks about, but few speak of outside the privacy of their abode. What is it about that little word that gets us tongue-tied and star struck? And why is it that love has so many different meanings to different people?

My encounters with love haven’t been ones that fairy tales were derived from. In fact, I have learned the hard way that love isn’t always enough and sometimes it can be too much. I’ve watched my friends and seen their love lives go up, down and occasionally inside out. I’ve watched them give everything for a love that once was, but no longer exists, just in the hope that they can get back what they once had.

The truth is, that you can’t force love and every so often you need to know when to give up. There are even times when the love is right, but you need to let go because it’s the right thing to do … even if you don’t want to. See, we can’t chase love because when we do we inevitably push it away and once the love is gone it is almost impossible to resuscitate it. So does that leave us loveless and alone or do we all have a happily ever after in the making? The answer to that question does not lie within me, but in those who have been fortunate enough to find love and never let it go.

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
~Emily Brontë


“Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.”
~Henry David Thoreau