Love

I saw this quotation on Facebook this morning, and it has been rolling around in my brain all day since.

I have never read anything more true, more endearing, or more important. Love is not easy all the time. Love is not a fairy tale. Love is not finding someone who will do whatever they can to make you happy (that's YOUR job).

Love is acceptance. Love is commitment. Love is allowing someone to be who they are now, who they were before you knew them, and who they will be long after they have known you. Love is deciding to stay, even when the honeymoon phase is over, or when they start to have eyes for someone else, even while they still love you. Love is something that was made to be shared, multiplied, and celebrated- not hoarded, or selective.

I have but one goal in the time I spend on this earth: to learn how to open myself fully to love, in its real and genuine form; to share it, produce it, and let it be the light that guides me.