Excuse my current occupation with the subject, but love has been the topic on my mind for the past little while. For obvious reasons, I've been thinking through the notion, concept, and idea of love and how it's affected my life thus far. My dear friend Lizzy in London sent me this quote today from the book she's reading:
"If you believe yourself unfortunate, because you have 'loved and lost,' perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases, and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back.
Dismiss, also, the thought that love never comes but once. Love may come and go, times without number, but there are no two love experiences which affect one in just the same way. There may be, and there usually is, one love experience which leaves a deeper imprint on the heart than all the others, but all love experiences are beneficial, except to the person who becomes resentful and cynical when love makes its departure.
There should be no disappointment over love, and there would be none if people understood the difference between the emotions of love and sex. The major difference is that love is spiritual, while sex is biological. No experience, which touches the human heart with a spiritual force, can possibly be harmful, except through ignorance, or jealousy.
Love is, without question, life's greatest experience."
I couldn't help but let out an "oh crap" after reading this. It's a little scary for an absolute romantic to try and grasp the fact that love is ephemeral and we should just accept that it waltzes in and out of our lives whenever it feels like it, leaving little lessons we're supposed to take away and be happy with. I don't buy it. Love is not just for show, not just a ritzy little visitor who pops by for a chat then leaves just because....and it's certainly not temporary. I feel like the author needed to justify what was going on in their love life by writing this nonsense! Honestly, if I could feel this way about it, I would. But in my core, I feel as though love is absolute, a feeling that once you truly feel it, does not go away. It's not affected by time, distance, or temperament. It's there to handle whatever hardships come its way, and come out on top in the end.
I've already eaten these words once in my young life, and I'm sure I'll face dive into them again...but it's when I'm living them that it will all make sense. Can't blame a girl for dreaming, can you?
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