love.

a little thing i wrote about a year ago... very depressing stage in my life when i didn't believe love was possible.


"i've always loved stories about love. who doesn't? love is something we dream about; something we live for. love is our fantasy; our dream world. but truth be told, searching for love hurts. the thing we always thought of as the cure to all our problems may actually be the cause. think about it- we "love" a cute boy in our middle-school years, after we've gone through years of honestly believeing they had cooties and were from another planet; we "fall in love" during high school and even the beginning of college, if we make it that far; we "find true love" which leads us to marriage. but what of that lasts? how loosely do we use the term "love"? and how do we even find this real, true, authentic love?"


to answer myself, i think that in today's world, the term "love" is used fairly loosely. it really sucks that in the english language we don't really have different words for love like they do in languages such as greek. we'd probably still misuse it, but i think it'd be better than saying "i love propel." then turning around and saying "i love my husband." i also think that we can find this real, true, authentic love by giving it. i'm not nessecarily talking about romantic love, but just love in general. i found the best way to recieve love is just TO love.

i recieved an interesting email today about accepting without judging. it was an amazing story and it really touched me. a great way to show love is doing just that! accepting... how many times to we snicker at the outcast, move (further than we need to) out of the way of someone nobody likes? what if we didn't judge people by what they looked like, but by the content of their heart? and what if we just LOVED people, no matter who they are in society, no matter what they look (or even smell) like, and no matter how different from us they are?


maybe we should take less time trying to be accepted, and just accept people who normally wouldn't be accepted.