The theme on my mind lately is love. With Valentines Day just next week, it's sort of hard not to. One of the hardest things I've learned about love I think, is that everyone's feelings about it are different. Not only that, but there are SO many types of love.
First, the most simple: love of an object. Pretty self explanatory. "I love this dinner!" "Oh my gosh, I love that movie!" It's a love that simply expresses a feeling stronger than like!
Second is the best, most pure and best intentioned in my mind..the love you feel for your friends! Since I've joined the military, I've been some friends who I would do anything for. If they need a helping hand, I'd be there. If they need an ear to bitch about their command to, my ears are always open. The love I have for my friends is endless. Back in Minnesota, I miss my friends like I miss my family, because they are family. I know that even three states away I can call them and complain or cry or laugh. My friends are amazing.
Third is probably the most confusing and worst of them all. It's that love that Valentines Day THRIVES on!! The love that every commercial, retail store, Hallmark card and candy isle exploits starting January 2nd. However, it's the love that can bring out the best and worst emotions in people. It's the romantic love. Here's the problem with it...everyone's range of love is so different, and when it varies as much as it does, one person will usually end up getting hurt. When you put in emotion to anything you do, whether it's love, work, fitness, a goal, you're going to have ups and downs. When the times are happy, you can feel like you're on cloud 9! The birds are chirping around you, you have that smile that seems to glow and the world seems perfect. The problem is, when the downs happen, it can feel like the world is crashing down. Like nothing is going right in life, and that your life can be an awful thing. Romantic love plays the most mind games...good and bad.
Love is a hard thing, and sometimes finding the balance between love of food, love of friends and love of a partner is a full time job. The emotions will pull you in all directions. You want to make the friends you love happy, you want nothing more than you make your partner happy, it can be stressful.
So, here's what I'm learning sitting ontop of this mountain, looking at the stars...love is, by far, the most powerful emotion humans can have. People live and die for it, and it's something not everyone finds. I look at my parents, my sister and her husband, my grandparents my family and I look at everything they have, the way they look at each other. When you find love, hold onto it, and hold onto it tight. If you have that someone, fight for them, let them into your life and don't ever let it go...you just might not get another chance....
SO...to all my loves out there, Happy Valentines Day. Know that each and everyone of you have a piece of my heart. Know that I will always love all of you!
Don't worry. You will. LUV YA TONS AND BUNCHES!! M
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