LOVE

I have been recently thinking about love. What is love...the eternal question. Everybody craves to love and be loved, it is part of human nature, God..(whether you believe in God or not)has made human beings to love...to give love and to recieve love. What else could motivate 2 people to only be romantically involved with each other for life? What makes people lonely...lack of love! We had to have been made by a loving being to crave love like all humans do. Isolate a person from all human contact, even for a short time, and see how the person falls apart. Like it or not...we need each other...we need each others love. I think of my mom and dad and how sooner than later I will have to live without each of the love they give me and I well-up in tears. I think of a girl I loved so much who passed away and I get a feeling of longing in my stomach. But.....on the other hand, think of a person who you love and is with you right now...and all you think about is the future with them and their love, you become relaxed and you smile...their love makes you smile. The greatest philosophers of love are children....unbiased innocent views of love. Let me give you a few quotes of children on the topic of love. Love is "when my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands have arthritis too. That's love." And this quote from a 6 year old......Love is when someone hurts you. And you get so mad but you don't yell at him because you know it would hurt his feelings." How about this quote..."Love is what makes you smile when you're tired." And my favorite from a 5 year old girl......love goes on even when you stop breathing and you pick-up where you left off when you reach heaven." And finally I think that anyone who has been together for a while can relate to this quote...."You have to fall in love to get married. Then when you're married, you just sit around and read books together." I think about the wars that go on between countries for the dumbest reasons...let some alien force from outer space come down here and start killing people of all nationalities and see how quick the people of all colors, nationalities and religions bond together for the common good of the existence of man on earth...all of the sudden, the arabs and israelies will be brothers in arms. My most simple but amazing example of love is when I was 23 years old....I loved a girl named Cindy Cole.....I used to love just the way that girl smelled...I even used to love breathing in her breath...her scent caused a reaction in my brain and heart of shear love...I could have breathed her in all day....she made me calm just by being there and smelling her beauty...God I can still smell her beautiful scent even now 2 decades later. So there you have it....LOVE the most beautiful four letter word in the world.