Thursday, October 05, 2006

Unconditional

Robert C. Solomon once said, ~Love can be understood only "from the inside", as a language can be understood by someone who speaks it as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.~ Let me ask you this question, how many of you have a deep understanding of what love or true love for that matter truly means. For its not as easy to figure out because a person can mistakenly perceive it to be something you can always see, hear, and/or touch, but it is in fact something you experience by simply opening your heart. Essentially, when you open your heart you gradually begin to understand what love actually means as you share in ways that you not only never dreamed of, but also that particular person as well.

If you think about it, opening your heart to someone is considered easy, but when it comes to opening up yourself emotionally that can be the hardest thing any person can possibly do. Why? It can leave you absolutely wide open to being brutally hurt, which probably many have experienced to the point you're not only closed off emotionally, but you also built up a defense or defenses around one's self. For it's a sad situation indeed when a person isn't capable of sharing all of one's self emotionally probably because of either stupidity, stubbornness, and/or fear. Whatever the reason, being able to open up to someone and sharing from your heart without restrictions gives you a chance to live in a whole new world you never thought existed.

Without a doubt, one of the things that makes a relationship stand the test of time is having unwavering support with someone who will always be there for you through thick and thin. A woman, more than anything, greatly understands and appreciates how important having a guy be physically, as well as, emotionally, be there for her when she needs him the most. This also applies for guys as well when it pertains to the woman in his life. Essentially, its that support system you have with that person who you put your trust in and count on as he/she cares enough to carry some, most, or all the burden/weight off your shoulders and place them on his/her own, which primarily makes one's life not only less stressful but also less anxiety ridden.

For the question can be asked of you, do you have any dreams or aspirations that you have been going after? Here's another question, would you give up or at least put on hold what you've been going after and try to make the dreams and aspirations of the one you love come true. Its that self-sacrificing, appreciative, respectful, unselfish love that doesn't have any ulterior motives or hidden messages, but what it does have is something so pure and innocent that it actually inspires the Add to dictionary, who may not believe in love. What it basically comes down to is knowing you're, in some way, helping the one who has forever captured your heart in achieving something that makes him or her happy that it makes both of you smile inside and out.

In retrospect, love gives you chances to understand and learn from past mistakes concerning your own heart. Oftentimes, those mistakes can lead a person to set boundaries and hide within one's self to where one unfortunately feels uncomfortable showing or receiving any sign of affection. However, when you meet someone who makes you feel comfortable enough that you are not only gradually introduced to your own heart again, but you don't feel like a stranger anymore. In the end, every person will finally grasp the type of love that keeps on sharing/giving rather than taking and that type of love is unconditional, which is a song from country great George Strait.

1 comment:

Coco said...

Unconditional love ... like that of a parent for his/her child. Like that of a dog. Like that of a friend who understands the true meaning of friendship. Can that type of love exist between man and woman?