The Power of Love

My blog for today is all about the word many people fear using and others long to say it to that one special person.

Love….

I have given this topic much thought recently for a variety of reasons, both good and bad. It’s amazing to me how such a powerful wonderful emotion can cause so much hurt and pain at times too. Understandable why people who have opened their heart to the possibilty of love only to have it broken are scared to love again. To go from feeling an almost euphoric feeling of elation and warmth to suddenly feeling that your world is ending is horrendous. Sadly, everyone must go through this heartache at some point in their life for it’s true “It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all” – Samuel Butler.

I’ve always been a believer that there is a special someone out there for everyone….now I’m not so sure. I am more inclined to think that there is more than one special person out there for us but only one “soulmate”. Too many people will go through life thinking they have found their’s only to suddenly meet someone out of the blue and feel a connection so strong it leaves them reeling. Some people have been lucky enough to find their soulmate and you can see it. The way they look at each other or the way they don’t even have to talk to know what the other is thinking. Then you have others who settle for a comfortable life together because it’s the “done thing” to do. Don’t get me wrong i think often the “done thing” works out long term but i believe they will always feel like something is missing.

Another thing I feel happens so often is you meet someone you have a strong connection with but it’s the wrong time in your life. It can be a chance encounter anywhere and there’s no explanation but you feel close to them instantly. You can’t understand why this one person has you feeling the way you do or why you feel drawn to them…you just know they’re special to you somehow. In cases like this the ol’ romantic in me believes that a path of fate will always bring you back to each other one way or another.

Everyday i change my views on how I feel about love. Some days I hate thinking about ever loving a man again cause when it goes wrong IT HURTS!! Then I start to think “Imagine going through life and never having felt it”….I can’t think of anything worse!

Truth is I’m getting to the point where I think “What IS love?” We all seem to think we are in love at one stage or another but do we really know or are we just going by what other people have described the feeling as? It’s right up there with many other questions i need answered, like why do men talk to our boobs instead of our face? Will Rimmel ever make a non-chip nail varnish that ACTUALLY doesn’t chip? Will i EVER work out the plot in Lost?

All I know is I’m trying not to feel cheated by love…but I’ve been duped by it once too often. I don’t want to end up being some cynical bitter old woman who spent the rest of her days too afraid to love again, but right now I’m dodging the word LOVE like bullets!! (and I mean the “in love” sense of the word) But apparently it’s what “the world needs now” according to Burt Bacharach so who am i to argue!!!

Below are some quotes that I feel are an apt way to end this blog.

Thanks for reading.

If love is so important to have that one doesn’t want to lose it, why is it when we find true love we often don’t notice it? – Anonymous

Where there is love, there is pain. – Spanish proverb

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. – Francois de La Rouchefoucauld

The courses of true love never did run smooth. – William Shakespeare

A person can be in love with someone forever till the end of time. But if that person doesn’t tell or show the feelings of love, it will be just another person living in a dream, lost of true love. – Anonymous

If the love you think you felt goes away quickly, then what you felt was never love to begin with. – Henry Mac

Somewhere there’s someone who dreams of your smile, and finds in your presence that life is worth while. So when you’re lonely remember it’s true: somebody somewhere is thinking of you. – Anonymous

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. – Francois de La Rouchefoucauld

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love – Charlie Brown

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so – David Grayson

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater – Anonymous

I thought I’d forget you, but I guess I forgot to. – Anonymous

“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart – Washington Irving

“Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest:
Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers:
Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest,
And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers
- William S. Gilbert