Now and Forever

Anais Nin once said, ~You care away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed of you. I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared at some moment the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.~ In some aspect, the human heart is like a mirror in which a person tries to reflect a part of one's self within the heart of someone truly special. Yet, when it comes to love or true love for that matter it can be difficult to know as to whether or not the feeling and emotions being reflected are real or merely an illusion. For the most part, you want to leave a lasting image of yourself to the point where a positive presence within his/her heart is felt, which others can see by the smile on your face.

Without a doubt, when you look into a mirror you most certainly see a reflection of yourself and all that you are. In a sense, that is how love is as you want to see a mirror image of yourself and all that you are or ever want to possibly be both in that person's heart, as well as soul. A woman, more than anything, would love to be able to not only see herself in the heart of the man she loves, but also see if he reflects the same qualities within her own heart such as patience, kindness, truth, caring, a nurturing nature, honesty, trustworthiness, sensibility, sincerity, love of God, etc. For it would be a dream come true to have all that she's imagined as a little girl become a reality and not have those precious images in her heart end up shattered like pieces of mirrored glass.

As said before, when it comes to matters of the heart, it can be difficult to know as to whether or not the feelings and emotions being reflected are real or merely an illusion to where it can be absolute insanity to figure out. Let me tell you something, every person has been in that type of situation and it makes you want to either scream, tear your hair out, or both. For the insanity can turn to madness as you can be fooled into thinking what you are seeing and/or feeling from that certain someone is real, but in fact it's all smoke and mirrors making it impossible to clearly visualize sharing a part of yourself with him or her. However, be rest assured someone out there can make sense of the madness that is love and will be able to show the clearest reflection of true happiness from his/her heart to yours.

Let me ask you this question, do you think a person can reach the same stage of love with someone who makes you want to completely step through the so called looking glass of your heart and into the euphoric wonderland you always wanted to be in, which is a place you never thought actually existed, except within the your vivid imagination? My opinion is yes because there comes a point where love asks you a question for you alone to answer which is: 'How far and deep are you willing to go down the rabbit hole to follow your white rabbit?' In other words, how committed are you to follow your heart down the dark unknown knowing that at some point you may get scared and turn around because the deeper in the relationship you go the harder it is to sometimes see where you're going?

In retrospect, a person can spend so much time trying to see an image of themselves in the heart of someone who one feels will make him or her happy that they end up losing a part of themselves because of it. The funny thing is the image you want to see shouldn't be a reflection of yourself staring back at you as you look into that person's heart, but rather a reflection of God whose love and understanding makes you whole. A guy can oftentimes be blind in knowing how truly lucky he is to have a woman who is a reflection of God's love and understanding, which should not to be taken for granted. In the end, taking away that love and understanding can make a man see what he is truly missing to where he can humbly say to a woman with love in his heart now and forever I will be your man, which is a song by Richard Marx that best reflects this thought.