Never Runs Out

Jules Renard once said, ~Love is like an hourglass with the heart filling up as the brain empties.~ As said before, love is like an hourglass with the sand representing our own thoughts, feelings, and emotions concerning matters of the heart. For its the sand in regards to love or true love for that matter can most definitely be viewed as either as a fleeting existence or absolutely never ending. Hey, its all a matter of one's own perspective as some people view the sand within the heart-mind hourglass as time running out in ever experiencing true happiness while others simply view it as having all the time in the world sharing it with their significant other.

Let me ask this question to those who are experiencing all the time in the world with their significant other:when it comes to sharing the sand of our own thoughts, feelings, and emotions to where it fills up each other's heart, what keeps it continually flowing between the two of you? Trust, faith, honesty, contentment, communication, understanding, commitment, security, respect, intimacy, hope, love, caring, tenderness, compassion, etc. are essentially what keeps the sand continually, as well as steadily flowing from one heart to another. It's a tough situation indeed to keep what are considered important aspects of a relationship flowing at a constant rate but it's all truly worthwhile.

Without a doubt, there are those who have this certain mindset that time is slowly but surely running out in ever experiencing true happiness. Essentially, the sand of their own thoughts, feelings, and emotions tend to feel as if they're flowing much faster, especially when experiencing times of utter heartbreak leaving one to deal with asking the oftentimes difficult questions. If you think about it, it's while trying to answer those particular questions one will flip the hourglass because he or she doesn't want to end up having one's heart filled with grains of sand that represent disappointment, frustration, bitterness, anger, sadness, loneliness, resentment, contempt, doubt, etc.

Personally speaking, I have the perspective that when it comes to my heart-mind hourglass the sand of my own thoughts, feelings, and emotions are in perpetual limbo within my mind rather than within my heart. In other words, my mind is and will always be full of questions to ask, leaving me to continue to be the type of guy who has an analytical, sarcastic, cynical view concerning not only love, but relationships as well. What it comes down to, for me, is the constant flow of being asked when are you getting married or being told you're next tends to leave me somewhat apathetic, but to be perfectly honest I'm not ruling it out entirely to someday experiencing true happiness.

In retrospect, love/true love has always been viewed as either fleeting or neverending like the sand within an hourglass. Thinking about it, a person can let the sand of their thoughts, feelings, and emotions all fall to the bottom because of experiencing unfortunate times of utter heartbreak or he/she can make each grain of sand count knowing full well they'll be shared and appreciated with someone truly special. For the question can be asked, how many people can truly say they have a steady, neverending flow of sand or should I say love with their significant other? In the end, I say to those of you who are continually experiencing the neverending flow of sand I hope it never runs out between the two of you.