All we need is love

I have been thinking a lot about love lately. Probably due to various blog posts and this fascinating site Pia sent me to (Le Love), as well as being busy working on more Love affirmations for one of my i-Phone apps (yes this is me punting my stuff). They say love makes the world go round and I guess it is true. I wrote somewhere once that Love is the answer to everything and in many ways I do believe that to be true. If you have love in your life, you are a very rich man/woman. Love is probably the only thing really worth both living for and dying for. Love is our greatest teacher in life. Through experiencing love we learn about each other and most of all, about ourselves. Love can brighten up the gloomiest day and the lack of love can make a warm summer’s night feel lonely and cold. Experiencing love energetically opens up your heart and welcomes more positive experiences in, while the loss of love creates an energetic cocoon around your auric field, that in time functions more as a cage. It takes courage to love, to open ourselves up to another for in that action we risk it all. And yet, what choice do we have in this life, but to love? It is our nature.
When we talk of love, we tend to automatically think of romantic, passionate love, but there are many different kinds of love (Anyone who has attended as many Christian weddings as I have will have listened to the ‘Agape’ speech many times). While all those different forms of love are important to acknowledge, in this case I don’t wish to talk about them. I do wish to talk about romantic, passionate, pulse-accelerating love. Being in-love has to be the best feeling in the universe. It is a totally natural high. It is just a pity that it usually doesn’t last! In time all things alter (remember this post?)  and usually into some lesser, or at least more comfortable and therefore less exciting thing. What got me thinking along these lines, was a post by Louise and I wanted to take this opportunity to salute her and her husband as well as my own parents and couples like them who after so many very long years together are still in-love. I think it is wonderful and actually very rare. These days it is a challenge for couples to stay married for 5 years, let alone 35. From car engines to dishwashers to romantic love, nothing seems to last. And we just seem to accept it – out with the old, in with the new.  I admire people who have kept the spark alive. I think it is heartwarming when you feel the love between two people, a love that has stood the test of time. I am not talking about people who have been together a long time as I know plenty couples who have been married for years but are bitterly unhappy, where compassion has turned to complacency and passion to pity. I know plenty people who live past each other, who barely seem to even notice each other anymore. And then there is the majority of couples who are ok with the status quo, comfortable with each other but their hearts don’t exactly skip a beat when their partner enters the room. When I read the way Dragonfly refers to her man, you can just tell this is not the case. I knew a woman who had been married for over 40 years and told me of how she and her husband were born on the same day in the same hospital. When she spoke of him, her eyes lit up. That is what I am talking about. That is true love. That is what makes the world go round.

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