That Loving Feeling

Someone once said, ~This is me, asking a risk-taker like you to trust me. To let me love you until I take my last breath. These were my last solo flights. From now on I want to wing everything with you and only you.~ If you think about it, when it comes to matters of the heart pertaining to love/true love it can in a sense be compared to the original Top Gun movie and it's blockbuster sequel. For its a thought provoking situation indeed when you feel the need for speed and enter the danger zone otherwise known as the dating scene. A dating scene in which you can truly feel like you're in a seemingly frustrating and neverending aerial dog fight of sorts that can be mentally, emotionally, and physically draining. Essentially, there's most definitely an ere of Iceman cocky self confidence in putting yourself out there in hopes of establishing a potentially strong, worthwhile relationship with your forever Goose to your Maverick.

Without a doubt, for those living the single life in regards to the dating scene there's certainly an adrenaline rush that's felt when initiating a fly by or buzzing the tower, in a manner of speaking, to try to make a positive rather than a negative impact. Of course, it's worth having your wingman representing your best buds and/or gal pals by your side and engaging the opposition by distracting the so-called unfriendlies in hopes of getting a solid tone lock on your intended target. A target that will quite possibly make it an incredibly challenging experience to say the least. Thinking about it further, even though getting a solid tone lock on your intended target is considered to be easy, its being able to actually make a significant impact that determines whether or not there's a mental and/or emotional direct hit to a guy's/girl's heart, which takes a tremendous amount of time and patience.

As I said before, even though getting a solid tone lock on your intended target is considered to be easy, its being able to actually make a significant impact that determines whether or not there's a mental and/or emotional direct hit to their heart, which takes a tremendous amount of time and patience. What it also takes is being able to learn from your mistakes and listening to sound advice like Maverick did when he had an insightful and meaningful talk with Viper after being mentally, emotionally and physically rattled because of Goose's death. I think it's safe to say each one of us can be or have been rattled after unfortunately experiencing times of heartbreak that shakes us to our very core to where you ground yourself to never get back in the pilot seat of one's heart again. What it primarily comes down to is pushing passed the doubt, worry, fear, anxiety, etc. that keeps any individual from going 0 to Mach 10 involving true happiness.

Let me ask this question to those who have seen the movie Top Gun: Maverick and the scene where Maverick confronted Rooster who got shot down after Goose's son foolishly saved Mav from getting killed by the enemy? The reason he did that was because Maverick told Rooster during training to act and not think, but that resulted in both of them trapped in enemy territory. I think it's safe to say when you finally find your forever co-pilot there's always going to be a shift in the way either one of you thinks and acts when dealing with being trapped in the enemy territory of problematic issues that arise in any relationship. Oftentimes, there comes a point in a marriage the husband, wife or both experience being metaphorically shot down and the way either one of them act or think in times of surviving a crisis will show how much training they have to safely get back in the air together.

In retrospect, it's ideal to envision a magical take my breath away meeting with someone you'll fall in love with and fly off into the sunset with. Unfortunately, the reality of it all is that not every love connection started out in a great ball of fire type of energy because sometimes you'll have to endure going through the fire to one day experiencing the exhilaratingly beautiful skies of being in a righteously long lasting, worthwhile relationship. Granted, it can feel as if you're taking part in an intensely complicated, impossible mission to a destination unknown that has a time limit of 2 minutes and 30 seconds attached to it. However, you don't give up because the circumstances are overwhelming. In the end, to those of you who are still flying high pushing past mach 10 in your marriage while facing off against occasional problems popping up on your radar I hope you and your forever co-pilot haven't lost that loving feeling.