The first thing that I'd like to do
Is to save every day
Till Eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you
~Jim Croce
Websters Dictionary describes love (in part) the following way:
1 a (1): strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties (maternal love for a child) (2): attraction based on sexual desire : affection and tenderness felt by lovers (3): affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interests (love for his old schoolmates) b: an assurance of love (give her my love)
That's only part of the definition. If you think about it, love covers so many different things. The love for your spouse, your children, your family, your friends. The love of your favorite food, or perhaps a movie or and actor/actress.
For me, love is an all encompassing emotion. The love I have for my husband is completely different than the love I have for my children. For that matter, I love my children just the same, but I love each of them differently.
The song that is quoted above was "our song" at our wedding. It was and is, perfect for us. On May 21st, we reached our 20th anniversary. It seems as though we just met, yet at the same time, it is like we have been together forever. I can't imagine life without my husband in it. Yes, of course we have had our "difficult times" just like any marriage. But that we survived the times we thought would have the power to destroy us is a testimony to our commitment. We are stronger for it.
Now I turn the keyboard over to my readers. What does love mean to you?
But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
I've looked around enough to know
That you're the one I want to go
Through time with
May 21, 1988
Happy Love Thursday everyone!
Comments
Hmmm.....
20 Yrs is a long time.
Love is probably the most complex emotion, it's so multi-layered and yes it does hurt sometimes.
Love is the one emotion the joins head and heart together, it keeps you going when times get tough for through it you know that there is someone out there that cares even if you don't know them fully.
Love is being able to look past all the crap that's going on in the surface and see what's really matters.
Loving someone means you care about how they are, what they are doing and hoping they know that you'll be there for them if they need it.
Love is also the sharpest dagger known to man, as it can hurt a lot, yet through that pain we become stronger.
Love is the big things and the little things you do for each other to show you care.
It's the one thing that keeps you from going totally nuts at the kids.
It can also make you do stupid things, it's the one emotion that can totally screw with your head.
Hugs
G
Posted by: Gordon at June 20, 2008 3:12 AM
For more than twenty years, this has been true.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved."
Wm. Shakespeare, Sonnet 116
Posted by: OWW at June 20, 2008 10:38 PM
