Worth Fighting For

Life can get pretty interesting when one gets older. It can seem that the older you get, the more complicated life can become. A person tends to stress out more as an adult than as a kid, but that is an argument saved for a later thought. The most simplest things in life can completely stress out a person, as a kid as well as an adult. One of those simple things in life is being in love or falling in love with someone. It can be confusing, it can keep you unbalanced, and most of all it's infectious.

As said before, love can be confusing because a person has no earthly idea when or why he or she has feelings for that particular person. It's somewhat like being hit from behind and it will take time for the realization to set in. No matter how many times one wants to deny the fact that he or she was hit in the heart, so to speak, that person has felt the impact. In some ways, that impact will stay with a person and the after affects will not go away. It's just a matter of not fighting the feeling and going with it.

Love is not only confusing, it can keep you unbalanced as well. Think about it, a person can be completely fine and traveling on his or her road of life, which one has traveled on smoothly so far. But once that particular guy or girl walks into one's life that is of course, he or she can throw you off balance and send you in many different directions. Directions that can frustrate a person that is now fallen head over heels. It's the unpredictability of love that can make any sane person turn insane, but with good reason.

Every person can agree that love can be infectious which is a good thing. A person that really wasn't looking for love can be bitten in an instant. If you think about it, when one person is bitten, usually there are several other "victims" that are bitten as well behind him or her. It's unavoidable, and every person has been in this situation where your heart was bitten and gradually infected. In retrospect, no amount of medical or scientific research can cure what people feel after being bitten by the proverbial love bug.

In the poem, "The Long Love That In My Thought Doth Harbor" by Sir Thomas Wyatt, he writes:

The long love that in my thoughts doth harbor,
And in mine heart doth keep his residence,
Into my face presseth with bold pretense
And therein campeth, spreading his banner.
She that me learneth to love and suffer
And will that my trust and lust's negligence
Be reined by reason, shame, and reverence,
With his hardiness taketh displeasure.
Wherewithal unto the heart's forest he fleeth,
Leaving his enterprise with pain and cry,
And there him hideth, and not appeareth.
What may I do, when my master feareth,
But in the field with him to live and die?
For good is the life ending faithfully.


I end this thought by saying, love can be like being in a battle. It can be confusing, it can keep you off balance, and the experience can leave lasting effects, BUT, if one doesn't give up on it, then it truly is worth fighting for.