And then this will be a happy blog with fluff and stuff…
But in the meantime, here’s something meaningful I saw on the internet.
LOVE
If you find yourself in love with someone who
does not love you, be gentle
with yourself.
There is nothing wrong with you. Love just
didn’t choose to rest in the
other person’s heart.
If you find someone else in love with you and
you don’t love him/her, feel
honored that love
came and called at your door, but gently refuse
the gift you cannot return.
Do not take advantage,
do not cause pain.
How you deal with love is how you deal with you,
and all our hearts feel
the same pains and joys,
even if our lives and ways are different.
If you fall in love with another, and he/she
falls in love with you, and
then love chooses to leave,
do not try to reclaim it or to assess blame,
let it go.
There is a reason and there is a meaning.
You will know in time.
Remember that you don’t choose love. Love
chooses you. All you can really
do is accept it for all
its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel
the way it fills you to
overflowing, then reach out and
give it away.
Give it back to the person who brought it alive
in you.
Give it to others who deem it poor in spirit.
Give it to the world around
you in anyway you can.
There is where many lovers go wrong. Having been
so long without love, they
understand love
only as a need. They see their hearts as empty
places that will be filled
by love, and they begin to
look at love as something that flows to them
rather than from them.
The first blush of new love is filled to
overflowing, but as their love
cools, they revert to seeing
their love as need. They cease to be someone who
generates love and instead
become someone
who seeks love.
They forget that the secret of love is that it
is a gift, and that it can
be made to grow only by
giving it away.
Remember this, and keep it to your heart. Love
has its own time, its own
seasons, and its own
reason for coming and going. You cannot bribe it
or coerce it, or reason it
into staying.
You can only embrace it when it arrives and give
it away when it comes to
you.
But if it chooses to leave from your heart or
from the heart of your lover,
there is nothing you can do
and there is nothing you should do.
Love always has been and always will be a
mystery.
Be glad that it came to live for a moment in
your life.
“If you want to be happy, be.”—- Leo Tolstoy
i wonder how it sounds like in russian? somehow i always think that poems lose that little something in translation.