in love WITH

Am I the only one to whom this is a pretty HUGE revelation? That couldn't be, could it?

I know that for some of us it recently feels like it is okay to come out of hiding and be ourselves again. If you found yourself single and alone last Tuesday, I am referring to you. Valentine is immortal and understandably so, that does not make everyone happy. :D SMILE anywayz. Besides it is safer to be again; the chocolates, flowers, candles, jewelries, strawberries, dinners and expectations are gone (for now). You are no longer going to be on the spot with the spotlight on you for another season. Despite that alone feeling; I hope you still have love.

Love of life is key. Living; that is the hard part but live as if you got only one life (because you do). To live, you need love.

Not that you need to be loved, NO! You need to love.

And here in lies my revelation: "in love with" is a total misnomer. Love is too conk to be shared (even on unequal grounds). It knocks one over and out and that is not something you partner and contract on. "Relationship" - now that is something you could be "in ... with" other party. Relationship of any kind is a partnership but not love. Love is a gift one gives without expectations. ...
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Just let that last phrase sink in and then reflect on it for another three seconds. Maybe I will explain more later but for now just agree with me that you could not be in love WITH someone else. You could be in some kind of relationship WITH whomever. Just because you love who you are with does not imply you are in love WITH who you love. There is not such "WITH" conjuction when it comes to love. You give love PERIOD

Like any gift, it may be received (well or not), rejected and/or ignored but that is the way it is. Give the gift of love and discover the wonders that make living "the life" that it becomes.



You have no choice - the sooner you accept this one and only condition for love, the easiest it is to live with love.