Despite the troubles of the world, despite that we have not witnessed a single day of peace since the day we were born, there is one thing in this world that is worth living for. This thing, just like all others, can be very easy or very hard to come by. You can believe you have this thing when you don’t have it, and you can doubt that you have this thing when you actually have more of it than anybody can ever wish for. It can make you happy, sad, confident, insecure, wealthy, poor and even dead or alive. On some occasions it will lift you to heights that you never knew or it can push you into the darkest hour of your life.
When you have this thing, it can make you happy. It can fill your heart and soul and make you be the best you can be. It can make you feel like you mean something in this world. It can keep you from letting your worries destroy you. It can be your crutch when you need something, or someone to lean on. It can give you a purpose in life that will drive you to no end.
It can also make you very sad. The loss of it has been known to devastate the strongest of men. It can rearrange every value you’ve ever held dear to your heart. It will make you do things that you never would have done before, despite the harm you know it could do. It will make you put up with situations while your conscience screams at you to let go of it.
It can make you feel like you can do anything; that you have the support of another. It can make you forget your limitations and push you towards successes that you may never have known. It can single-handedly fill your character with integrity without you ever doing a thing.
It can make you insecure when you try to attain it. It can make you wonder if you are doing the right thing to keep it. You might quickly throw away every belief you have ever had, just to have this one thing.
It can help you attain the wealth of another, even though you may not have done any work to enjoy the luxury. It can introduce you to new connections that can help your business thrive. It can create a walking advertisement for your greatness, which in turn will support your life’s work.
It can take away all of your money, feeding another because of this thing. It can make you spend what little you have just to make this thing grow a little bit more. The results of this thing can produce more mouths to feed, more needs to take care of.
This thing will make you sacrifice your own life to save another. It will make you devote your precious time to keep your family from suffering. It will cause you to follow a destructive path all because you feel that this thing is more right than your own conscience.
It will make you less willing to give up when times are tough. It will be your shining beacon when you don’t know where to turn. It will cause somebody else to give up their own world to keep you alive.
This thing is love. Love is so many things to so many people. In fact think about the loves in your life. How many different kinds of love do you have? Is the love for your family the same as the love for your lover? Do you love your neighbor? Do you say, “Oh I love her” when you talk about somebody who makes you laugh does it always mean you want to spend the rest of your life with her? Take love as it comes, and enjoy it when you have it. But don’t let it take you down. If you look at only the positives, love will carry you for the rest of your life. There will be down times, but those are the times your love is needed the most. If you take care of these down times truthfully, honestly and commit to solve the problems…you will see these down times far less frequently. And these down times will become a positive effect on your relationship. Those times will help you grow.
Ok, enough of this sappy shit…
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