If You're Not The One

Someone once said, ~Do you know how confusing you are? You are the most confusing person in the world. Sometimes you confuse me so much, I get confused about why I'm still crazy about you.~ Without a doubt, the life each of us are living is considered to be at times confusing, but when you potentially meet someone or are with someone who touches your heart, as well as, your mind it gets even more confusing. For it's truly and utterly amazing how one person can instill in you a plethora of feelings and emotions that when you experience them individually or all at once it can only be quite confusing, it can drive you nuts just thinking about to the point of going completely insane.

Let me ask you this question, are you interested in or with someone who makes you so confused that it drives you crazy? Crazy in the sense that even though its frustrating and difficult to deal with how you feel about that certain someone who may not share the same feeling as you do and yet despite that you're thankful that person is part of your life. For it truly takes patience to be around or with someone who does or says things that sometimes make no sense whatsoever and yet you can't help but laugh about it. It's what relationships, whether they be friendly, potential, and/or significant, are all about because to be perfectly honest love or true love for that matter would be absolutely boring.

Essentially, there comes a point in all the craziness and confusion that goes on within your heart thoughts of why you're such a loser begin to creep into your mind. You begin to wonder what's wrong with you that you start deconstructing yourself and it inevitably leads you spiraling down towards anger, bitterness, and resentment, which is something that a handful of people have experienced. Thinking about it, every person has probably at some point in their lives done that and has had those thoughts to where they've initially looked back at one's past relationships or attempts at relationships that you've become convinced that you're not only a pathetic loser but also a failure as well.

In any case, it's oftentimes hard to understand why we feel the way we do when it pertains to someone who not just makes you smile but also makes you want to pull your own hair out. Why? Maybe for the first time in your life you find something that feels so real that its scares you to death to fully experience it. It's a sad situation indeed when you go through constant heartbreak that when you truly have /find something special and real in someone you're scared to let everything go. Instead, you hold back/keep inside what's in your heart, which makes you miserable every time you think about him or her. For the question can be asked, as confusing and crazy as this may sound who makes you miserable that it feels good?

In life, someone comes along that just turns one's already crazy and confusing world upside down even more than usual. For that person gives you the chance to say or at least let him or her know how you really feel. It's with genuine honesty that you say that when you are in my thoughts my head hurts because it brings up all the feelings for you that make my heart spin out of control, which makes me absolutely miserable. Miserable in a good way and you know what I've waited all my life to feel this way. Now that it's happened/happening I'm terrified, but the crazy thing I don't want the feeling to ever go away. So, I stand before no longer confused as I know you are the one for me, BUT if you're not the one then I ask you who is? A song that best reflects this thought sung by Daniel Bedingfield

Bring Me To Life

Someone once said, ~Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, noe so powerful, as hope. Without hope people are only half alive.~ In some aspect, there is within hope a pulse that keeps a strong and steady beat, which gives a person assurance the one will someday find/meet true love. When it comes to true love, hope is the one solid thing you tend to hold on to as it gives you a reason to keep on fighting to live, so to speak. Yet, there comes a point where the hope that pulsates with your own heart starts to slowly fade and you're inevitably left hanging on by only a single thread. Let me ask you this question, how strong is the hope you have pulsating within your veins and can you feel it?

For the most part, the hope you have pulsating within you're veins when it pertains to true love can start out faint to where it eventually grows stronger as you pontentially meet someone new. For it can truly be felt as one's palms become sweaty, nervousness sets in, and one's pulse goes absolutely haywire, in a manner of speaking, to the point of suffering a heart attack, which of course is a good thing in this particular situation. However, experiencing the absence of meeting that special someone or facing constant disappointment for that matter can put one's pulse from somewhat faint, to strong, to nearly unreadable to where you don't know whether or not you're dead or alive?

As said in the beginning quote, without hope people are only half alive and when you add the absence of true love you feel like you're dying or dead inside. One can have that cold, empty feeling not only in your heart but also in your soul as well. Its within one's self imposed tomb you, in a sense, feel as if you're wandering/sailing around in you're very own sea of dark emotions somewhat like the River Styx from Greek mythology where the souls of the dead are transported across to the underworld. Whether or not you pay a toll, which is one obol(coin), to the cloaked skeletal ferryman Charon would primarily be best left up to your own interpretation of this particular thought.

In any case, without hope people are not just half alive but their also half themselves. If you think about it, you don't have a real identity as you struggle to keep from ceasing to exist all the while trying to find the one who truly completes you in every way. Oftentimes, a person can lose one's self as the hope he or she holds on to can essentially strip away the remaining idenity you have left to where its competely destroys you and leaves you just a mere shell of your former self. Without a doubt, hope can be considered our greatest ally that keeps one's pulse beating but unfortunately its that same hope that is also considered to be our greatest enemy as it can slow kill you mentally bit by bit.

In retrospect, a person can put so much faith on hoping true love will come one's way that one risks killing it completely and the stress that you can put yourself through heart can cause it to die off in a slow, painful death. Its a sad situation indeed when one tries to resuscitate hope that is metaphorically dying to the point of either shocking it with a defibulator or putting it on life support, which is just plain foolish. Its that proverbial fool's hope, which if one monitors it with an echocardiograph, shows its pulse slipping away to the point of flatlining. In the end, its on your so called death bed that you pray for miracle to walk through the door as find yourself screaming out loud these words bring me to life, which is a song by the band Evanescance.

Reality Bites

Someone once said, ~Sometimes its hard to face reality. You feel the greatest feeling every time you're with them. You can't sleep just because you'll see them tomorrow. Every time you're with them its like a moment in heaven. Soon enough the magic disappears. Your heart is breaking and tears constantly come. Every beat of your heart hurts from all the pain. You wish you were hidden from all the world, and maybe all the pain would go away. Sometimes, its hard to face reality. Love - its not always what it seems.~ When it comes to love, as well as, matters of the heart, there comes a point where a person needs to or must be given a reality check that is considered harsh, ugly, brutal and yet its truthful.

If you think about it, there is a twisted narcissistic element hidden within love to where a person will play on certain emotions to basically stroke their own ego and pride. Its that all about me mentality that can have the person who supposedly loves/loved you actually manipulate you with words that are either knowingly or unknowingly harsh. For its these knowingly harsh words "you don't love me anymore" that can truly hit below the belt, so to speak, as he or she plays on the guilt one may be feeling. Yet, he or she knows how truly devoted you are/were as you spent countless nights crying over him or her. Let me ask you this question, was that ever said to you and can you remember the person who said it?

Without a doubt, love is a beautiful thing and yet it can turn ugly to where it's dark, dreary, and most of all depressing, which people choose to ignore. Unfortunately, you can't ignore what is always going to be there no matter how hard you try to suppress or hide it. The anger, hate, bitterness, resentment, etc. that you may have locked away within your heart from an extremely bad past relationship can crossover into a seemingly great one. Its those unresolved issues that haven't been dealt with can be like a dark cloud hovering over you to where it's starts to build up each time a certain problem is ignored until something big or little happens that unleashes the storm of the century, in a manner of speaking, that is not only ugly but nasty as well.

As I've said in the past, love is a battle worth fighting for that can leave you both metaphorically and emotionally scarred, which is worth it. However, a person has to face a brutal reality concerning love and that is sometimes it really isn't worth fighting for. Essentially, a person can have all the courage, faith, determination to keep fighting, but it’s considered a losing battle to where you simply have to stop, turn around, walk/run away. Even though your heart is in it, in your mind you know you have to give up. A female friend said, ~Some guys...relationships...some love is really not worth fighting for. That's when faith and determination need to be kicked to the curb...and all you need is the courage to get the hell away.~ Do you agree with her?

In retrospect, looking back at past Yodaisms about love I've come to realize that maybe I've been living in a dream world. Initially, there is always a sense of hope that true love will not only bring closure, but true happiness within one's heart. However, no matter how close you are to finding/meeting true love, it seems that he or she will always be just out of reach and for the most part, it doesn't always have a happy ending either. Love can quite honestly be brutally harsh to a point that you can't stand to look at it because of how ugly it can make you or the person who loves/loved you. In the end, when it comes to the realities of love, I've got only two words that best sum up this thought and they are reality bites.

Break The Walls Down

Candice A. Land once said, ~Each time my heart gets broken or trust is lost, its like a wall is being built around my heart and my brick wall is almost done.~ If you think about it when you experience heartbreak, a broken trust, or even loneliness for that matter within your heart you can most definitely feel like the walls are not only closing in on you but also getting higher to the point you're in complete darkness. It can be a scary situation indeed as you metaphorically can't see what's in front of you and the only sign of light, depending on how high one's wall is, is directly above you. Its at that point, a person can experience or have that feeling of claustrophobia even though one's not in or around any enclosed spaces.

Let me ask you this question, are you now or have you ever felt claustrophobic to the point you're own heart couldn't even breathe, so to speak? It's when you're in that metaphorical dark confined space you find its gets harder and harder to breathe. Why? In a sense, it's like the surrounding darkness grabs hold of your heart, doesn't let go, and slowly squeezes it. No matter how hard you try to struggle and fight, it becomes more difficult to escape as its hold grows increasingly tighter to where you start to slowly lose your own sanity. In order to regain back one's declining sanity, the only logical and reasonable thing to do is climb up and out of the darkness that will inevitably turn you completely insane.

Without a doubt, the climb up can be tough, time consuming, as well as, dangerous and yet it won't stop you from reaching for the light above. In a way, that is how getting through heartbreak is as you begin at rock bottom and then you try working your way out of the sadness, anger, bitterness, loneliness, and/or confusion that one deals with. One has to be reminded though, you can't climb up too quickly because one wrong move will send you tumbling back down to that deep, dark, and seemingly cold abyss, which nobody ever wants to be in. Slow and steady is what it comes down to as you don't want to make any mistakes and oftentimes it truly makes a difference when you eventually reach the top.

Essentially, once you reach the top and sit on the edge you take in all that you see before you as you're able to breathe easier. One can feel victorious at the effort put in and yet sitting there on the edge you, in some ways, feel like the nursery rhyme character we've all sang about as little kids. In some aspect, we can all relate to Humpty Dumpty because every person has experienced a great fall to where it left you and your heart broken and in several pieces. However, unlike the ending to Humpty Dumpty, you and your heart can be put back together again. For the question can be asked, is there someone in your life who has been right by your side every step of the way helping you heal with tender, loving care?

In retrospect, when it comes to heartbreak, a broken trust, and/or loneliness you can feel like that you will never be able to get out from within those four walls to where you feel trapped. A person can spend so much time screaming and yelling for help that all you hear is the echo of your own voice boucing off the walls. It can truly be a frustrating and scary situation for any person in not knowing who will come to their rescue and save them from slipping into madness, in a manner of speaking. In the end, when it comes to the walls that surround you in complete darkness someone special will hear you and break the walls down so that you see, as well as, feel his or her bright, shining love.

Dirty Little Secrets

Gilbert Parker once said, ~In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.~ Let me ask you this question, do you have any secrets that you may be hiding from your own family, friends, and/or significant other? Secrets that can possibly hurt not only yourself but others around you, blackmail worthy, or simply embarrassing for anyone to know. Hey, it's a part of life as one chooses not to reveal certain pieces of information from your past and depending on the type of person you are it can either be an easy or tough situation to keep on the down low.

Oftentimes, a particular secret one holds concerning his or her health can hurt both emotionally, as well as physically, when it involves food. Eating disorders such as Anorexia or Bulimia are no laughing matter and more often than not women, more so than guys, go through it because of the pressure to be thin caused by either guys, society, the media, or Hollywood. It's a sad situation indeed when a woman sees herself as overweight and takes dangerous measures to lose weight such as throwing up the food she ate, which she can hide for months or even years. Let me tell you something, it truly boggles my mind as to why perfectly healthy and beautiful women put themselves through that kind of torture to where they risk losing their own life.

When it comes to keeping a secret such as infidelity it can most definitely hurt not only the one he or she supposedly loves but it can also hurt those who are closely connected as well. Families can be torn apart to the point that the kids, if any, are caught up in the middle in a proverbial tug of war. Why do it in the first place? One reason that comes to my mind is being bored in the marriage and that thrill of meeting someone new makes trying not to get caught red handed, so to speak, is considered an adrenaline rush. For the question can be asked of you, whether you're married or in a significant relationship, have you ever thought or actually cheated on the one you loved behind their back?

Essentially, when you talk about keeping secrets on the down low there is one place that should automatically come to each and every person's mind. Las Vegas, otherwise known as Sin City, is a place that has countless untold stories by people who have sworn absolutely secrecy to never utter a word about their exploits or particular events that he/she/they may or may not possibly remember due to the quantity of alcohol one consumed during one's time there. Yet, pictures can say much more than words can ever could as a person can be blackmailed by one's own friends, which they hold over your head for many years. Hey, as the saying goes, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

In retrospect, people all over the world probably have secrets that are considered to be a skeleton or skeletons in one's closet that he or she doesn't want to be opened ever again. It's those particular skeletons in one's closet that can most definitely wreck havoc on a person's life such as using drugs, giving up a baby for adoption, having an abortion, changing one's gender, coming out of the closet, having family/ancestors who are/were criminals and/or murderers, or whatever the case may be. Ultimately, secrets can most definitely hold power over you depending on what type of secret it is. In the end, I ask you this simple question: do you have any dirty little secrets, which is a song by the band All American Rejects.

My Final Thought

Someone once said, ~The end is never as satisfying as the journey. To have achieved everything but to have done so without integrity and excitement is to have achieved nothing.~ There comes a point where the intellectual journey one has been traveling on becomes mentally exhausting. The time and effort put into something that takes either hours or days to write takes just several minutes to read for those who not only become an avid reader but dare I say a fan as well. For it can be a tough situation indeed to keep subjects such as love fresh because quite frankly what can be said about it that has already been said.

When it comes to the subject of love you can make so many comparisons, as well as, observations about it that you may very well repeat yourself. Without a doubt, it's a subject matter that can be considered difficult to comprehend and yet there are so called experts out there who not only have PhD's but also written books on the problems, complexities, and solutions of love, which can be confusing if you ever have time to read them. Let me tell you something, I don't consider myself an expert, but I do consider myself to be a people person who listens, observes the bigger picture, and sees what others are not able to see by putting my own personal twist on it.

Essentially, within each and every Yodaism I've hopefully achieved a certain amount of integrity to where I've earned the respect from my peers. For there has always been a moral code to treat subjects such as heartbreak with tactfulness and dignity that it truly deserves to those who experienced it. However, when it comes to the subject of sex, I tend to leave it well enough alone. Why? It's primarily something special that should remain private to where it shouldn't be shared and/or described by having it read in detail by friends and/or total strangers. It's just not my style and so far I've been able to not break what I stand for, as well as, who I am as a person.

Personally speaking, it's been a blast sharing what I've learned and/or experienced with many of you who have, in turn, shared your experiences with me. It shows trust as you get to know the person behind the person finding out things that touch not only the heart but the soul as well. If you think about it, there are those rare moments where you meet someone who you find totally intriguing to where you deem him or her a one of a kind person who can never be replaced or duplicated. For the question can be asked, am I that person? With that said, I tip my hat to each and every one of you who were ever able to get the message within the message, which was a thrilling and exciting challenge for me.

In retrospect, life is about creating challenges for yourself that can help test you mentally and/or physically. For nearly a decade, I've challenged myself mentally by trying to figure out what life and love are all about. It's through either personal experience, word of mouth, or witnessing it firsthand you've read it all coming from the perspective of a guy. Whether you agreed or disagreed with what I said on a particular subject matter, I challenged you to think and if you are a person who hates thinking I'm sorry. In the end, after writing 373 Yodaisms that have challenged me to think I ask myself is this my final thought and my answer...not a chance because I'm just getting started

All For Love

James Baldwin once said, ~Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is war, love is growing up.~ If you think about it, when it comes to true love it can initially start off small but then it eventually steamrolls into something much bigger than anyone can ever imagine. When it comes to the battle for true love a person can predict a possible outcome when it pertains to a certain someone in the beginning stages but unfortunately the end result is sometimes not what one predicted. Despite that, one must remain with the proverbial battle plan established within your heart, which holds the following three things: courage, faith, and determination.

Without a doubt, it takes courage within your heart to head into something that you have absolutely no idea as to what will happen next. Once a person makes that decision to step on the field of battle, so to speak, there is no turning back and most definitely an overwhelming sense of fear will be felt. Yet, it's that same sense of fear that drives you, as well as, motivates you to keep moving forward even though you're scared out of your mind. If you think about it, its when you're truly scared that you find within yourself the courage to not be afraid of the feelings and emotions that repeatedly hit you to where you remove the bulletproof vest you metaphorically wear, which protects your heart from being hurt.

True love not only takes courage, it also takes faith as well. Faith you put not only in yourself to make the right decisions, but also in God to help protect and guide you through the so-called warzone. For it can be a tough situation indeed as you can easily be distracted from all that is happening in, to, and around you to where you lose focus. It's when you lose focus the faith you have in God and in yourself slowly turns to doubt, which happens when one's heart and mind clash. In order to bring that focus back you have to pray and faithfully trust that God is leading you or already has led you to someone who will have/has complete faith in you to protect and guide him or her to a place that is absolutely calm and peaceful.

Essentially, every person comes face to face with one's heroic nature which is shown by the determination yielded in his or her heart. The determination to fight for what is honest, pure, as well as, true and even though you may not have the physical, mental, and/or emotional strength you keep on fighting, which shows how much heart you have. Thinking about it, falling in love is just half the battle because the other half of the battle is staying in love and if you don't run away from it you show signs of growth. In a sense, when you fight for someone who you would give your life for then you truly know the meaning of true love to where you're all grown up and the boy/girl you started out to be is now gone as you now become a man/woman.

Someone once said, ~Love is fighting for what you want and always working to make it better. So, if you fight for what's in your heart you're likely to receive love back.~ In retrospect, true love gives you a fighting chance to not ever give up on someone special who will most definitely not ever give up on you. It's just a matter of fighting with all your heart and whether you win or lose, you fought with honor. In the end, when you find someone who also has the same courage, faith, and determination to join you in the greatest battle two people will ever face together it's all for one and all for love, which is song from the movie Three Musketeers by Bryan Adams, Sting, and Rod Stewart.

X Marks The Spot

Herbert Otto once said, ~We are all functioning at a small fraction of our own capacity to live fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating, and adventuring. Consequently, the actualizing of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime.~ Let me ask you this question, have you ever wanted or thought about what it would be like to be a pirate? Living life to the fullest by doing what you wanted, taking what you wanted, taking who you wanted, and most of all not letting any kind of set rules hold you down? With that said, wouldn't it be interesting if true love were like that where absolutely nothing stood in your way to capture someone who truly stole your heart.

Thinking about it, any guy would jump at the chance to be a pirate because it gives us a chance to be the bad guy. As the so called bad guy we would just swoop in unannounced with one's trusty sword in hand take the proverbial fair damsel away. Let me tell you something, every guy has had that thought of taking a particular female they either knew or a complete total stranger, whisk her away over one's shoulder, sailing off into the sunset, and have her eventually fall in love with you. Only in our dreams I know and besides one would truly suffer the consequences with jail or prison as the charge of kidnapping would put somewhat of a damper on establishing a relationship with the damsel in question.

Without a doubt, it's a woman's fantasy to be taken by a pirate, who would otherwise be known as the proverbial bad guy. Why a pirate? To be perfectly honest I have no earthly idea but my best guess is that there is a mysterious, romantic, arrogant, charm mixed in with a carefree, take no prisoners attitude that can cause any woman to be mesmerized to the point of being attracted to him. Respect must be given because even though a pirate is considered a dirty, rotten, scoundrel, he's a free spirit who loves the open sea with a passion. Unfortunately ladies, whether or not he resembles Captain Jack Sparrow a.k.a Johnny Depp will probably be best left in the fantasy of your own imagination.

As I've said before, true love is considered the greatest adventure two people can ever be on as you have the thrill of the chase for the guy and the thrill of being chased for the girl. Most definitely, countless stories can be told of men forever capturing their future wife and yet even though the chase is over the adventure still continues to go on. In any case, there are guys like myself who are still out there sailing the high seas, in a manner of speaking, chasing that unknown fair damsel. The same can be said for any woman who is still waiting for their unknown swashbuckler to sail in, give chase, and forever capture her heart.

In retrospect, we all metaphorically hold a map that leads to the greatest treasure a person can ever find...the human heart. Oftentimes, one's metaphorical map can take you in every direction but the one you want to go to the point that you find yourself lost sailing the high seas within your own heart, so to speak. It's at that point you try to figure out the next course/heading within one's internal compass, which can either take days, months, or years. Ultimately, when it comes to the map of true love there are those who are fortunate enough to find the greatest treasure connected to that special someone and in the end, x marks the spot for those who haven't given up the chase to find what truly does exist.

Never Forget

Fred Savage's character Kevin Arnold from The Wonder Years once said, ~In your life you meet many people. Some you never think about again. Some of you wonder what happened to them. There are some you wonder if they think about you, and there are some that you wish you never had to think about again...but you do.~ If you think about it, throughout our own lifetime we meet so many people that it's sometimes impossible to remember the names that go with the faces. Yet, its those certain people that tend to stick in our minds whether it's on a conscious or subconscious level. Let me ask you this question, has there been someone you've been thinking about who you haven't seen in quite a long time?

Where are they now? That is a question that tends to pop up as you look through old pictures, as well as, yearbooks back in the day. For it's your former classmates that you find yourself asking the following questions concerning certain people. Questions such as: Is he/she single? Is he/she married? Does he/she have any kids? If so, how many? Is he/she still the same person that you knew him/her as or has he/she changed? Essentially, it's these questions and more that lay dormant in your mind until you bump into him/her/them years later or stumble upon him/her/them in a popular website such as Myspace, which can be a nice surprise indeed.

In any case, you can sometimes wonder if there are certain people from your past that ever think about you. Depending on whether or not you're a person that made a positive impression on people it would be safe to say you would be an unforgettable person. Though egotistical as it may sound, you would be considered flattered that there is someone out there from your past who not only remembers your face but also remembers your name as well. It can be especially touching if that particular guy or girl who's been thinking of you was a person you had a close, special relationship with or was at one time in a significant relationship with that ended on good terms.

Speaking of relationships. there are certain ones that you most definitely don't want to look back on when it concerns an ex. The arguments, jealousy, mistrust, being overbearing, domineering, lack of showing appreciation, etc, whatever the case may be are aspects of the relationship that you don't want to ever think about and if you do they bring you to tears. Without a doubt, there have been many women, as well as men, who have cried themselves to sleep because someone totally did them wrong. For the question can be asked, can you think of a past ex that just the mere thought or mention of that person's name sends chills up and down your spine...in a bad way of course.

In retrospect, we all will continue meeting people in the present who will be part of our past, to where they possibly may be part of our future. Unfortunately, you have to take the bad with the good as there are those who will not have our best intentions in mind when it comes to friendship or love and you inevitably leave their memory in the past where it belongs. However, every once and awhile you meet someone that just brings joy to your life and you continue to smile, as well as, laugh when you think about him or her. In the end, even though your mind may forget the names and faces of people from your past who are considered special and/or important, it's your heart that keeps on remembering to where it will truly never forget.

You'll Think Of Me

Someone once said, ~I die inside because I've finally realized the fact the time arrived when you don't want me back. But you're the one who did the heartbreaking, so why do I do all the heartaching? I guess because I'm the only one of us who can see that I never meant to you what you meant to me.~ It would be safe to say that there are countless people, whether it's guys or girls, who have felt the stinging effect of being burned by a particular someone. Yet, how long one felt or has been feeling the effects of being burned is primarily determined by the guy or girl in question. Let me ask you this question, is there one person who totally burned you to where it left a scorch mark within your heart that hasn't really gone away?

More often than not, women are more likely to become so-called burn victims than guys because of the emotional attachment they can have with those certain gentlemen in question. I use the term gentlemen loosely as there are guys out there who say and act like the proverbial handsome princes but then end up turning into fire breathing dragons. For they can say the right words, as well as, do the right things to genuinely win one's heart as it makes them feel like a princess but unfortunately those words and deeds can become meaningless to the point it just turns into a bunch of steaming hot air.

For guys or girls, being burned is in a sense like being Punk'd and your heart is considered the main target. Oftentimes, you can see it coming but there are times where you can't and you just get blindsided by those four words...we need to talk. Without a doubt, you don't know what is about to happen and yet you prepare yourself to stop, drop, and roll, in a manner of speaking. Once one hears those words he or she has been dreading there's not only an initial shock but also complete disbelief that it's actually happening to you. However, unlike the end result of Punk'd it's no laughing matter as your heart is left humiliated and betrayed.

For the question can be asked, can being burned by someone be, in the long run, a good thing? I believe so because as I said before the most resilient part of the human body is a person's heart. Though you may think the love you have within your heart will burn you, you'll find that it will heal you as you meet someone who inevitably removes that scorch mark within your heart. A female friend of mine experienced an unfortunate break-up but surprisingly she is in good spirits about it because she saw it coming. Essentially, she didn't suffer any permanent burn marks within her heart and to make a long story short she has met someone new who has given her a reason to smile both inwardly and outwardly.

Someone said, ~So what do you do when somebody you're so devoted to suddenly just stops loving you and it seems they haven't got a clue of the pain that rejection is putting you through. Do you cling to your pride and sing 'I Will Survive, do you lash out and say 'How dare you leave this way', or do you hold on in vain as they just slip away?~ In the end, when it comes to being burned a person can take back words of love, as well as, material things that mean something special, but what you can't take back are the memories you shared together to where you say to that person even though you've moved on with your life with someone else you'll think of me, which is a song by country recording artist and newly married man Keith Urban.

Out Of This World

Josh Brand once said, ~Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?~ In my own thinking, love is like a rocket ship/space shuttle that blasts you up to the final frontier where the vastness of space allows you to do miraculous things, which you normally wouldn't do in the confines of Earth's atmosphere. Without a doubt, love can bring you to new heights within your heart that you haven't quite yet seen to the point you're amazed at what you see. Let me ask you this question, when it comes to love, are you prepared for the ride that your heart is going to take?

If you think about it, when it comes to love and your heart there can be a metaphorical countdown as to when one's time of liftoff with someone special will come. For it can be either a short or long wait depending on whether or not certain things will call for delays such as fear. Its just a matter of patience as you want so badly to have that clock countdown to zero in order to be at a place where it's just you and that person circling Earth forever. In any case, there is a friend of mine who I've been in contact with that is personally on his countdown to potentially establishing a new relationship amongst the stars to which I say to him good look and safe travel.

Oftentimes, a person can feel like an outcast as those around him or her seem to be launching into new relationships. In a sense, it's like they're looking down from the inside-out of their own heart to those on the ground whereas you are looking up from the outside-in waving back. It can truly be a lonely feeling as if you're the only person left behind, in a manner of speaking, as friends and acquaintances experience something that is considered to be a thrill of a lifetime. A thrill of a lifetime that you would gladly experience over and over again just with that one person who finally gives you the opportunity to like inside-out from within your heart.

For the question can be asked, is there someone in your life who gives you that feeling like you are rocketing towards the stars above? It's a feeling that you don't want to lose because, for the most part, it frees you from pain, heartache, tears, and the fears you have that can most certainly weigh you down to the point you fall to the ground. For its that freedom within your heart and soul to not be afraid of how you feel about that certain someone who you would travel to infinity and beyond for. Let me tell you something, how often does this feeling come along to where you look down from the heavens above and be given a totally new perspective that just takes your breath away.

In retrospect, true love gives you a chance to experience weightlessness that can make you flip and spin. It can make you so excited that the anticipation of it all can make you absolutely sick in the stomach. It can metaphorically take you around the world and places in the universe, as well as in the stars, that have never been charted. For some, most or all people are experiencing this right now and they're loving every minute of it. Unfortunately, for a person like myself my feet are still planted on the ground and I don't yet have a reason to travel into space, so to speak. In the end, when I do finally have that reason to boldly go whether others before me have gone then it will be something truly out of this world.