Overcoming
November 4, 2009
Picture from Deviantart, Cal250
When did I become a skeptic in the fluttery you-complete-me, I-can’t-live-without-you kinda love talk?
When did I become realistic? I wished I was more dreamy sometimes; who can dream up diabetically romantic verses and believe fervently in the fluttery proclamations of love, but gone are the days. I mean, I do smile when I read such stuff, but to totally believe in it? Not really…
A committed relationship cannot live on just love alone, and yet it inevitably dies without love. There are many couples whom I admire and respect, and also those whom I hope I’ll never be like. There have been couples who took almost all of my faith away, and yet there were those who tell me, in their everyday ways, that faith is all there is.
Love hurts sometimes; no two ways about it. There’s a quote that says, when you love someone, you’re opening yourself up to being hurt. More often than not, healing is a bitch. And yet there’s another quote that says, being on top of the world doesn’t mean anything unless you know what it is like to be at the bottom.
The world is a crazy place. It’s a crazy place full of misery and sadness. But it’s also a crazy place full of love and laughter. Quoting Helen Keller, the world is full of suffering, but it is also full of overcoming.
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November 7, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Since we’re on the topic of quotes, I like this particular one by CS Lewis.
“Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.
Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.
But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
To love is to be vulnerable.”
On my perception of love, I have been envious, and I have been dubious. I have been sure, and I have been challenged.
Too many cases of right, wrong, affirmation, betrayal, laughter, tears. There is no definition of love, because there are no words to describe a power so great.
But, of all the things I discover about love, it is that last line in that quote that I find common in every example of love.
To love is to indeed be vulnerable.
November 11, 2009 at 9:45 am
Vic!! Hi!!! How have you been??
I’ve heard of that CS Lewis quote before, and yea, i do agree with it as well, about being vulnerable. And I think you have the most poetic comments on my entries. (= which makes very interesting reads. (=
November 15, 2009 at 11:24 am
Been well!
Will drop by more often
I might steal your “wall of photos” idea.
Always wanted to do one, though cleaning is gonna be sucha chore
November 18, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Haha just do it man.. dont think so much about it!! it’s quite a bitch buying the photoframes though, i have to add.