True Love

What does true love mean to you? Its a subject that many have pondered, many have questioned since the beginning of time. Crazy love, passionate love, obsessive love, are any of these really love? Love, to me, is compassion, understanding, gratitude, patience, it is seeing with the heart, it is loving unconditionally, not demanding or expecting love in return. True Love is free. Its unbounded. Its open and accepting and forgiving. It is not attaching yourself to an outcome or an expectation of how someone is going to be. Our expectations of what we call love are very rarely what we experience therefore we are disappointed, we are hurt, we are offended. We are always getting offended by things. By people. When you live in a box, everything is confined. Nothing is ever as bad as our minds make it out to be. Its my belief that loving yourself is the key to finding love elsewhere, because the thing we are all searching for is love, isnt it? Its a person to share our lives with. A person to be there at our best and worst, and love us anyway. But when we are really into a person, it can make us crazy. It can make us irrational and sometimes even cruel. We don't know what to do with the love because we haven't really experienced it within ourselves. We are afraid to lose it so we cling to it, and that clinging puts a big strain on the relationship. But if you love yourself in a respectful and unconditional way, then you will know that you deserve to find the love of your life in a real, freeing, amazing way. You will put that message out there and it will happen for you.

See with your heart, and know that love is all that matters :)

Jem