Thought for the day
How do we know we've become too cynical? Or, how do we know when we've reached the point in our lives when we finally see things clearly for exactly what they are and not what we want them to be?
...When you reach the point in your life when you realize that love isn't always enough.
Sometimes we love people that are totally wrong for us and sometimes we don't. Sometimes we tell people that we love them, even if we don't...usually because they said it first and we feel obligated to say it back. Other times we really and truly love a person, and they really and truly love us back, but we just can't make the relationship work.
And then, there are those relationships where only we say I love you, and the other person doesn't say it back, but we don't mind. We don't mind because they don't freak out or get scared and run away; they don't stop calling us back; they just smile and appreciate the sentiment and kiss us. And then, at that moment, we know that they might feel it too but just don't want to say as much, or else they feel they don't have to say it because we already know. We know with their smile or their kiss, that they're really seeing us for who we are, no games. It also gives a bit of the hope that maybe, this just might work.
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What happens to us when we realize that love just isn't always enough? That sometimes we need more...what that more might be, we might not know yet, or maybe we were just stupid enough to let love go without a closing word of why.
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Maybe we're just a whole generation of people who can't settle on only one thing, I mean take ice cream for example. Baskin Robins' 31 flavors wasn't enough: Ben and Jerry's had to come out with about 100 totally different flavors than BR: and now we have places like Maggie Moo's and Marble Slab that let us build our own ice cream from the ground up, like it were a pizza or something. "Yes please, I'd like coconut ice cream with almond slices, white chocolate chips, and fresh raspberries...in a waffle cone with white choclate dip and rainbow sprinkles."
.................................................
When is enough enough?
When?
Is love really enough?
...And how will we know when to settle for the love in our life and stop looking over their shoulder for something more?
...When you reach the point in your life when you realize that love isn't always enough.
Sometimes we love people that are totally wrong for us and sometimes we don't. Sometimes we tell people that we love them, even if we don't...usually because they said it first and we feel obligated to say it back. Other times we really and truly love a person, and they really and truly love us back, but we just can't make the relationship work.
And then, there are those relationships where only we say I love you, and the other person doesn't say it back, but we don't mind. We don't mind because they don't freak out or get scared and run away; they don't stop calling us back; they just smile and appreciate the sentiment and kiss us. And then, at that moment, we know that they might feel it too but just don't want to say as much, or else they feel they don't have to say it because we already know. We know with their smile or their kiss, that they're really seeing us for who we are, no games. It also gives a bit of the hope that maybe, this just might work.
.................................................
What happens to us when we realize that love just isn't always enough? That sometimes we need more...what that more might be, we might not know yet, or maybe we were just stupid enough to let love go without a closing word of why.
.................................................
Maybe we're just a whole generation of people who can't settle on only one thing, I mean take ice cream for example. Baskin Robins' 31 flavors wasn't enough: Ben and Jerry's had to come out with about 100 totally different flavors than BR: and now we have places like Maggie Moo's and Marble Slab that let us build our own ice cream from the ground up, like it were a pizza or something. "Yes please, I'd like coconut ice cream with almond slices, white chocolate chips, and fresh raspberries...in a waffle cone with white choclate dip and rainbow sprinkles."
.................................................
When is enough enough?
When?
Is love really enough?
...And how will we know when to settle for the love in our life and stop looking over their shoulder for something more?
posted by AeroAangel at 18:54
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