{image via jake's new blog}i have, for several weeks now, been wanting to write a recap post about my 28th birthday goal to fall in love. i've started and stopped a dozen drafts and imagined a dozen more and none of them have felt or sounded right to me. they are either too much or too little or don't ring true enough or tell just a little too much truth and i guess ultimately this is what i get for a) making a goal like "fall in love" in the first place and b) putting that goal on the internet.
i know i want to say something, though, because i think falling in love is good and important and i think that being able to fall in love makes us better, stronger, happier people in the end. so i decided to take it back to the basics and leave it at that.
one. i believe in love. i believe that it happens.
two. i know that we survive when, for whetever reason, love doesn't happen the way we wished and hoped it would have.
three. love is a choice. i choose to open my heart to experiences and people and relationships that will lead me to love, or i don't. the end.
four. i want to always choose love. even when it burns me. even when it hurts. even when i put it out and it doesn't come back to me. because i would rather love and lose bravely than be scared and never try.
five.the more i try, the better i get at love. it seems like the opposite should be true, and sometimes it feels like the opposite is true for a minute, but in the end loving some just makes me want to love more. which is good news because i like being a person who loves.
2 comments:
confession:
when I read your fourth point, my eyes saw "even when I put out..."
that's when I thought THIS POST IS ABOUT TO GET A LOT MORE INTERESTING.
then I reread the sentence and it made a lot more sense.
READING is phunduhmentle.
I like this entry!
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