Life is full of opportunity. Life is all about change. Sometimes change is voluntary, sometimes change is necessary. Life is about choice. One choice, no matter how simple it seems, can change your entire life. Life always pushes. You can either choose to let it push you down, or you can choose to push back. And it is much easier to fall than it is to get up when you are down.
It is easy to justify stubbornness with fear. Ultimately though, stubbornness inhibits growth and fear results in loss. Loss of opportunity, loss of ones-self, loss of love. It is when you know the difference between wrong and right that you know what to fight for. In the end, the only things worth having are the things you have to fight for. No matter how hard it might be to put your own foolish convictions aside, no matter how much it hurts, the alternative hurts much worse.
To find somewhere you belong is always hard. To find someone who accepts you regardless of that is even harder. You can spend years searching for something and working for something, and it can all be gone in one second, with one action or one thought. It is much easier to lose things than it is to get them back and just as easily as someone comes into your life, they can choose to leave.
Strength is not generally something you are just born with. It is something you must attain, something you must earn. Direction is never guaranteed, you have to create your own path. Every day, with every choice you make, every word you say and every action in your life, whether consciously or not, you create your own path. Everyone strives to be great. Most people just aren’t strong enough to get there. You can live your life with the best of intentions, but in the end that is all they really are. Just good intentions. When those intentions become less and less real, you slowly start to give up on yourself. And when you give up on yourself is when everything falls apart. It is always better to let loving get in the way of living than to let living get in the way of love.
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” ~James A. Baldwin
Love is possibly the greatest and most misunderstood of all human emotion. It can be simple yet complex, easy yet difficult, and empowering yet crippling. It can bring tears, both good and bad. It can change your entire life. It can be everything you need and more. It can be gained and lost, lost and found. Something so important but that is not guaranteed. It can be fearless yet cowardly, beautiful yet blind, old yet strong, mysterious yet all-knowing. Love is everything.
For all of the love in the world, there are many different degrees. The way you love your parents and your relatives; the way you love your siblings and your friends; the way you love yourself. Love can be hard, and love can be soft, but either way, love is a great tool. When a friend is down, sometimes even a smile can make them happy. This is love. When we hug our parents and feel an overwhelming sense of relief and joy, this is love.
Power exists only in compassion and understanding. It is hard sometimes to grasp the concept that something so intangible can have such an effect on humanity. But this is why so may friendships, so many relationships, fail. It is not because people do not care, but because they do not know and do not understand. They do not know the power of their words and actions. They do not understand the responsibility that goes along with loving someone else. We do not always realize our power. Those we love help us grow and make us who we are. Every person we come in contact with has an impact on our lives, some even more so than others. Sometimes, we are all each other needs to grow strong and powerful. Love is a process, not a moment.
Not all love is easy, and perfect love exists only in fairy tales. Still, not all fairy tales have a happy ending. However easy it may make things seem, the fear of love is not an option. Neither is the loss of compassion and trust. Without trust, there can be no belief. No belief in kindness, or in integrity; in anything. Never accept the self-defeating fear of losing; of not being enough. We must have the ability to care, and not to care. We must know how to live, how to learn, and how to love, for it is the greatest gift we have to give. Love can offer great weakness, but also great strength. The labor of love is often the greatest kind, but it is always the most rewarding. You give so much, but get all that and more in return. Often times love is judged by the world, but there is no room for this mixed up world to judge something so pure and so truthful, amidst all of its languished grace. Never fear love.
We must learn from our mistakes, and have no regrets. We must allow our hearts to be broken, and always get back up when we fall. Loving each other is the only way to make life worth living. Love is the most intense of all emotion. We must be wary in love, but not so much as to let it pass us by because we fear letting it sink into our hearts. We can never let a broken heart stop us from trying again. Everything happens for a reason and every reason has its place in the shaping or our characters. Mistakes can make us strong. Strength can only be attained through the knowledge, awareness, and understanding of weakness, and true strength is not measured in the body, but rather, in the heart. Love will keep us sound, and love will make us strong.
No comments:
Post a Comment