Do you ever think that you are really ready for love? I mean really love, unconditional love? I often hear people saying that there ready to fall in love, or even that they are in love but sometimes there actions do not say the same. I thought I was "in love" once, well for 10 years but over this past year I have realized that I was not "in love" at all, but rather "in love" with what I wanted that person in my life to be, but they were not. Its amazing cause people often say that if you stay with someone long enough you grow to love them, but I would say you just learn to tolerate them......
I am not on a quest to find love but rather for it to find me, or maybe it already has.....time will tell!
Love is strange. I think the love that comes closest to unconditional love is the love of a parent for a child. Most parents feel this kind of love for their children.
ReplyDeleteI think I have been "in love" a few times. . . loving someone and being "in love" seem to be different to me. What a wonderful thing it must be when you are "in love" with the person you love. I truly loved most of the people I have been "in love" with . . . but like you say, maybe I just loved who I wanted them to be. The chemistry of being "in love" is just a mystery to me. I have lived this long and still not figured it out.
I would say right now I am "in love" with a person I was "in love" with 40 years ago. Do I love him? Yes and no. Do I love who he was and who he is now? Yes, but with reservations, some of these emotions are respect and admiration. This love is not unconditional like the love I have for my children and grandchildren.
Do we ever really figure it out? Not me!