Some of my thoughts on Love
I used to carry around notebooks asking everyone I knew what they thought love was. I have this crazy idea in my head because of my name, Amanda, it means, “Worthy of Love,” and I think that there is a lot to a name, and for mine I thought to be worthy of something you have to know what it is, so I had to know what love is and I had to be loving and loveable to have it. It was a pretty neat little project I just like to see what people say. Some of them were wise and heartfelt, some were funny. A lot of people have the same thoughts on love they just put it in different words for the most part. I’m talking significant other love not friendships, to which I believe, “No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends.” (John 15:13) which is why I’m picky about my friends ha ha.
I think that some people we are meant to love pass in and out of our lives to teach us something, to enrich our lives by being part of it, and we know when to let that go and hopefully we can smile at the end and be happy for the times we’ve had, but we just know it wasn’t meant to be. And then we move on to the next big adventure, or heartbreak, good friend or maybe something a little more.
But for my big idea of love I would have to agree with my mom for the most part, she has said, “love is not only a feeling but a choice.” It is so easy to love someone when they are being nice and loveable. When they are being fun and entertaining. But I believe that it’s true love when two people can not only say I love you, but I love you when you are being stubborn, I love you when you are not so much fun, I love you when you are mean, I love you when you are moody, I love you when at moment I don’t like you. I don’t think love has to be tuff, but I don’t think it’s always easy. It’s a choice, one I think you have to make one big time and then remind yourself when it’s not so easy, why you made that choice. And I think, I think, that the answer to that question is because something within my soul the very heart of me knows this person, knows that they will always be there for me, knows that they will get that joke, they will know my look, my laugh, my faces, what the tone of my voice means and that is when you remember why you made that choice.
I used to carry around notebooks asking everyone I knew what they thought love was. I have this crazy idea in my head because of my name, Amanda, it means, “Worthy of Love,” and I think that there is a lot to a name, and for mine I thought to be worthy of something you have to know what it is, so I had to know what love is and I had to be loving and loveable to have it. It was a pretty neat little project I just like to see what people say. Some of them were wise and heartfelt, some were funny. A lot of people have the same thoughts on love they just put it in different words for the most part. I’m talking significant other love not friendships, to which I believe, “No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends.” (John 15:13) which is why I’m picky about my friends ha ha.
I think that some people we are meant to love pass in and out of our lives to teach us something, to enrich our lives by being part of it, and we know when to let that go and hopefully we can smile at the end and be happy for the times we’ve had, but we just know it wasn’t meant to be. And then we move on to the next big adventure, or heartbreak, good friend or maybe something a little more.
But for my big idea of love I would have to agree with my mom for the most part, she has said, “love is not only a feeling but a choice.” It is so easy to love someone when they are being nice and loveable. When they are being fun and entertaining. But I believe that it’s true love when two people can not only say I love you, but I love you when you are being stubborn, I love you when you are not so much fun, I love you when you are mean, I love you when you are moody, I love you when at moment I don’t like you. I don’t think love has to be tuff, but I don’t think it’s always easy. It’s a choice, one I think you have to make one big time and then remind yourself when it’s not so easy, why you made that choice. And I think, I think, that the answer to that question is because something within my soul the very heart of me knows this person, knows that they will always be there for me, knows that they will get that joke, they will know my look, my laugh, my faces, what the tone of my voice means and that is when you remember why you made that choice.
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