Now I know this is going to upset some of you before I post it so please finish reading it before you comment....if anyone does.
Here goes:
Love is a corruption of the soul.
Now before you get all mad or upset about this statement I want you to follow my thinking.
When someone falls into love they change the way they think about everything. They start thinking outside themselves, outside the way they used to. They act differently. They feel differently. They treat others differently. They say they don't but they do.
It changes all of us and guess what? We all know the feeling of being around someone in love when we aren't. Doesn't that suck too? I mean you always feel like you are the impossible tenth or eleventh wheel. Just there and no real need for you but you know that somewhere the people you know are there or at least supposed to be, right?
We do the most amazing things for love. We have created rituals to signify being in love. We have a holiday devoted to it. We fight wars over it. We fight our neighbors and our friends over it. We all change when we are in love.
What is sad is that we also all know what its like to fight our way back too. Did you notice I said "falls into love?" I believe that love is like a huge pit that we dig. Sometimes when we fall in love we are lucky and its right at the edge of it and its easy to climb out when it fails but other times we fall so far down that climbing out is a huge and terrible process.
Now I am not saying that love is a bad thing even if it seems like it. I have seen the most amazing things happen because of it. My own sister has been in love and married to her lover for over 35 years now(she is ten years older than me BTW). I have seen countries come to peace because of love of life. I have seen a country rally behind and help its people in the worst of times(I will never forget 9/11/01 or Katrina).
But I do also believe that there are some of us that are destined to never find or be the ones that find happiness in love. I know I am probably one of them as I have worked very hard at it and never have found anyone that is willing to put forth the time and effort I am. They always seem to find someone else or when I do the right thing they run off because "I need someone that can focus on just me. I am sorry you can't because you are taking care of your mother. I know she is sick and needs you there but I don't want to wait for you."
Well life can be fun.
Love is a corruption of the soul, it is total and complete when it happens changing everything you do and say. You will fight wars for it and leave your friends behind for it.
Is it worth it?
