Love

I love Love. 

It is the great treasure of life. It’s the rosy pink watercolor splayed across the sunset and falling into your eyes. It fills your body with tiny bubbles that lift you up and up and up until you’re floating among the spirits of the clouds. It is the crispy bite of apple and the sticky juice dripping down your chin. It glows inside you, nourishes your entire being from the inside out. There is much cruelty and confusion in the world, make no mistake. But there is also great love hidden in the cobble stone paths, waiting under the grooves in your tongue for you to accidentally spit it out. 

Love allows you to, for a moment, make sense of everything. To accept everything as it is and appreciate its innate beauty. And you are apart of it. You belong in this pool of infinite love, too. 

The catch comes when we attach this love to another. Another place, another food, another favorite sweater, another song. A human being. It is futile. It evaporates as soon as it hits the ground. Life is ever-changing, ever flowing. Love is like trying to hold sand; as soon as it takes shape, it slips through your fingers. It’s like trying to stay in one place while swimming in the ocean. When you experience the absolute treasure of love, hold it as long as you can, and let it go. Because let it go you must. 

You deserve Love. True Love. It is your divine right. It is your gift from life. There is too much pain and too much sorrow to neglect the simple pleasures in life. 

Let Love in like an old friend visiting from out of town. Invite her in for a cup of tea and fresh fruit. Talk about the weather and reminisce about old times. Hug her and kiss her and stand in the doorway as you wave her goodbye. And trust that she will come back again.