"Firework of love"
(collage and oil painting on canvas, 24X36, 2009)
"Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
Franklin P. Jones
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
Robert Frost
I enjoy observing people in love. I don’t mind seeing either fourteen or sixty-year-olds passionately making out somewhere in a public place. I’m happy to see people embarking on a wonderful journey, which I know will be wonderful regardless whether it ends in marriage or heartbreak. People often say that being in love completes them, but what they fail to realize is that going through the ‘process’ of being in love is what completes them as people; and not just for the duration of time when they are in love, but for the rest of their lives.
Realizing that you can care more about another person than you care about yourself and/or suffering so much that you can’t see why you would want to continue on living without your lover makes us better, more thoughtful and more compassionate people. It completes us as human beings and allows us to experience life to its full potential. Love is easy and difficult at the same time. It makes us fearless and careless while simultaneously making us more fearful and careful than we ever thought we could be. It makes us metaphorically lose our minds while it enables us to physically feel our hearts.
True love is yet another miracle that most humans are given a chance to experience, but only few are able to recognize for what it truly is and even fewer of us are able to hold on to. Perhaps, that while in love the objective should not be to hold on to it, but to enjoy it while it lasts and to know that you are privileged to experience a true miracle.
