Yes this picture is probably photo shopped, edited and you name it, but does it really matter? Is what it represents not more important than its origins? Are we so closed that we cannot appreciate the thoughts behind its creation?
I think love is like that. We just have to open our eyes and be willing to see it for what it is and not always question it or the conditions it comes with.
If we are open to it, love comes to us in many ways. It is however up to us what we do with that love. Some loves we cannot return or fully explore while others we are free to live out to their fullest. Some loves grow fuller and richer as they age while others reach their limits and their end by dates.
Sometimes love is all the sweeter for the things you have shared - even if those moments are few in number, their impact lasts a lifetime. Perhaps the limits in time make it that much easier to appreciate the beauty of those cherished seconds.
To be forever grateful to have experienced such powerful love is worth not being able to share in it for very long. Many would say the hurt from the loss would overpower the love and they would run in fear. For me, I have ran towards it, to experience it for all it was, for all it could be, for as long as it could be and then held onto it as a wonderful gift once its time had expired. I have never regretted the opportunities that I have found love and each one has left me far richer and fuller as a person than I would have otherwise.
Every time I have experienced love I have grown in so many ways I probably couldn't find the words to explain it completely. Every type of love, shared with every type of person or animal (think pets) brings something to you and leaves its mark on you, just as you leave something of yourself with them. Sometimes these things are tangible but mostly they are not. They are more like an internal touchstone that makes you smile and feel good. The risks of trying to feel and follow the love sometimes worked out and other times they did not, but they were still worth feeling alive enough to go after them. Even the hurts were worth it, with no regrets.
Thoughts like this typically come when we lose a loved one and while we are sad, we are so happy and grateful to have had the time to share with them, this price, while high to pay, is still worth it, for what they brought to our lives holds far more weight than any grief.
I believe that in our lives we have opportunities to give and receive love from many. Some are friends, some are lovers, some are spouses and some are strangers we may never meet and others we just haven't met yet The options hold no limits and no boundaries. We can show love in so many ways and love can be what we want it to be.
I think that is sometimes lost when we are looking to find love. It can be anywhere, in any form, from anybody. It doesn't have a specific package or order, it just is. We just have to give it first ... and then we will be able to find it in everything. Once you have experienced it, its impact will indeed last forever and be with you forever. That should make your heart smile and your soul sing. What greater gift is there than love?
Photo credit: http://www.scribd.com/doc/515961/Friendship-and-love-defined-in-a-single-photo-
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