Hollywood has made love out to be something it can't ever hope to be. A 100% cure all, a triumph-er over lesser worldly needs, an almighty cosmic force that banishes all your troubles and woes in it's wake. How strong! How noble! How divine!
And admittedly when you first fall for someone that's exactly what it feels like! You're on top of the world, life is yours for the taking and you are going to take it with savage impunity!!!!
Problem is in Hollywood, after the lovers get together that's pretty much it. The show ends and everyone lives on in celluloid happily ever after. Maybe popping up in a sequel with a quick tiff that's easily solved and back to the loving mosh pit they go!
In real life though, we carry on. We put one foot in front of the other and we live, day in and day out and if we're lucky then love becomes part of our lives and we get to look at our partner, so many days, months, years down the line and remember why we love them so much, even though they do leave the toilet seat up or forget to turn off the freaking tap how-hard-can-it-be?!
And if we're not so lucky then things begin to fray. Other needs begin to wear down love, other things begin to latch on and suck the life out of it with vampiric glee. And one day you wake up and you realize that love, gorgeous thing that it is, isn't enough! Not on it's own! It needs support from other facets in your life, and when instead those facets turn on it, no amount of love and warmth and cuddles will be able to over come it.
Okay yes, this does sound awfully morbid. But the facts remain the facts. Love is powerful and it can do amazing things!! It can also fail. It can wither. It can even die. Whether or not we are ready for it!
~~~BUT!~~~
Life does bring changes, and sometimes those changes are scary and fierce looking and we shiver so mightily in our little yellow boots, but that doesn't mean it's not for the good! Even the greatest tragedy will have some some good come from it! Even the saddest grave site can still grow flowers!
And so maybe love wasn't strong enough THIS TIME, well you know what? There is always a next time! We cut our painful loses and we try move on as best we can, scarred, battered and bruised but wiser too. Because who knows, maybe next time is our time! And we'll "get lucky" and love will, in that instance, be exactly right and exactly enough! We blaze with hope even when we think we can't hope anymore, because of maybe. If and maybe!!
Please god maybe!!
*Screen fades to black, roll credits*
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