Through The Rain

Lamar Cole once said, ~Love is the umbrella of the heart~ In some aspect, love is like an umbrella in which it is able to or at least tries to shield your heart from suffering pain and heartache that can most definitely rain down on it hard like a bad storm, so to speak. If you think about it, when it rains we try our very best to protect ourselves from getting any part of our body and/or clothing from getting wet by using an umbrella and, in a sense, each of us want that same protection when it concerns our own heart. However, you can never really be fully protected from being soaked because when it comes to matters of the heart there will be times where you'll unfortunately experience a seemingly non-stop torrential rainfall leaving you soaking wet within your heart and soul, in a manner of speaking.

Let me ask you this question, how many of you had your umbrella stolen and you ended up having to either run or walk in it to get to your intended destination, which is not a fun experience? Here's another question, how did it make you feel when it happened? I would safely guess quite a few of us, myself included, have had that happen and you can feel such emotions such as shock, disappointment, as well as anger. Why? For it personally belonged to you and it was something important that helped keep you dry. In a sense, it's those same emotions and many others that can be felt as love is taken away from you by someone who decided to no longer protect your heart from feeling the uncomfortable shower of sadness beating down on it, leaving you absolutely vulnerable.

Without a doubt, you feel absolute vulnerability when you find yourself without an umbrella when it rains. You see, one of the many things that is greatly affected are the clothes you wear because once they get wet it gradually starts to become heavier making it difficult for you to move around. Thinking about it, one's own heart can gradually become heavier as it metaphorically soaks in the emotional pain of being hurt to the point where it weighs you down both in a figurative and literal sense causing you not to want to do anything or talk to anyone. Let me tell you something, every person at some point in time has been in that type of situation and all you ever want to do is just let yourself wallow in the so-called dark, dirty puddle of your own emotions.

For the question can be asked, do you have someone in your life who's loving heart is always open to share with you all-the-while covering your own heart from possibly suffering pain and heartache that tends to rain down on a relationship? A woman, more than anything, wants a guy who is not only able to open himself up, but she can also count on him to never leave her standing alone in the rain holding a broken umbrella filled with holes in her hands. Essentially, when it comes to love or true love for that matter you don't want someone with a broken umbrella filled with holes because it represents not being fully dependable when it pertains to putting your entire trust in someone who you want to be there to protect you when you truly need it the most.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said, ~Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.~ In retrospect, relationships can weather any kind of rainstorm depending on how strong and durable the umbrella is between two people. You have to remember in order to have sunny days ahead in a potential and/or significant relationship you oftentimes have to endure some dark, dreary days where rocky, stormy times will be experienced. Sometimes you or that person will have to make the proverbial self-sacrifice and let yourself get soaking wet in the rain to prove how much you want to be in the relationship. In the end, if you can have a relationship with someone without suffering any permanent breaks or holes in the umbrella of love you share with him/her then both of you can make it through the rain.