This is something I wrote for our writers group, the topic was "love" and I wrote this in June of 1994. enJOY! LOVE
LOVE: 1. A deep devotion or affection for another person or persons: love for ones children.
To ‘love’ someone, does not always mean the opposite sex. A person can ‘love’ a person of any sex. I find, I ‘love’ most everyone I meet. All people have goodness in them, some you just have to look a little deeper to find them. We all have faults. This does not mean we are bad people.
To ‘love’ someone, you must first, find ‘them’.
What does ‘them’ mean you ask? Themselves, their inner goodness, their soul (or spirit). Some people prefer to call it their ‘heart’. A heart is the muscle that pumps blood through the body.
I do not believe you can survive without ‘love’. The soul feeds on it. There are a few things a mind must do, before you can find ‘love’. One of the most important of these is, you must stop looking on the outside. Start looking on the inside. My father always said “Everyone is different, do not judge a person before you have lived their life!” Everyone reacts different to every situation in life. We are either strong in spirit or we are not so strong. The other thing we must learn to do, and it is not always easy. Is to put yourself in their shoes. To do that you must also, spend time with them.
When you can do this, you can start to see ‘them’, and it is beautiful! ‘Love’ has its own way of sneaking up on you. To have ‘love’ in your own family, you MUST learn to forgive, for through forgiveness, is the only way to find true, strong, and everlasting ‘love’. A very dear and loved friend once said to me, “If you only look for the bad in people, that is all you will ever see.” (Thank you RMMKS). My father always said, “Forgiving is the easy part, it’s forgetting that takes forever!” (Thank you Dad, and happy Fathers Day).
So take this within, ‘love’ and be ‘loved’.
I still believe this today...positivity breeds positivity...have a great day and smile, because you can!
