LOVE & LIFE

Life is about love. It's about whom you love and whom you hurt. Life's about how you love yourself and how you hurt yourself. Life's about how you love and hurt the people close to you. Life is about how you love and hurt the people who just cross your path for a moment.

Life is about love.



~Matthew Kelly

Rambling Thoughts on Relationship Needs

What is the deal with relationships? How is it that they start off so wonderfully and then what you were so attracted to in that person slowly fades? It is almost as if people present themselves as being someone else in the beginning of a relationship. You fall in love with these characteristics (thinking that is who the person truly is) only to find out that those characterisics are not a true representation of that person. Is it just the process of trying to attract a mate and telling them what they want to hear in order to "hook" them?

Once you are in the relationship and you express that desire to see those characteristics which are missing, how long do you wait to see if they appear again? After expressing your needs and desires to another, if they can't meet your expectations, do you let it go? Let them go? If those needs were met in the beginning, how then are they not met after a year or so? Is this the normal course in relationships? Have my needs changed? Has that other person changed?

Maybe those needs which have been expressed are not understood by the other person. Maybe they are unrealistic. Maybe that other person doesn't care enough to put forth the effort in trying to meet the needs of the other person? If that is the case, then that is my answer!

(Yellow flag Melissa)

Naked

Here I stand before you naked like a child.
One more time I come before you,
just to be by your side, coz....

You are my haven from the storms,
You are my fire, you keep me warm.

Words cannot express the thanks
I have inside my heart.
Poets couldn't write it, painters couldn't
paint this kind of art.

~Bliss

The One Constant Thing in Life is Change!

Who Wrote That?

After not writing or being on my blog for some time, I'll return and read it and wonder who in the world wrote these things? Some times I don't even remember putting these blurbs, words of advice, etc on here. But the ironic thing is... it all applies to what I am currently going through or will be experiencing in the near future. Almost as if I've written these things to myself knowing at that time I will understand it all in the future. (Kind of like a clairavoyant type thing.) Or even weirder, sometimes those things that I have written, thought about, hoped for or dreamed of have already transpired!

I feel I have been liberated. Free to make my own choices in regards to what I think and thus how I feel. My destiny truly is in my own hands (and thoughts)! I am entering a really good phase in my life. I'm relaxing into my new identity and accepting things for how they are. I no longer feel like I'm in a rush to make things happen according to how or when I think they should happen. I'm just floating down that river of life and enjoying the views.

I know life is very short. I feel very fortunate to have the family and friends that I share my life with. And I know they feel pretty lucky to have me in theirs.