Thoughts: Part 1.

[alwaysenduphere]

I suppose that hope suggests a need, and it suggests that something has not yet ended. To have hope is to believe for change, to believe for a better ending.

I believe that pain is universal, which is to say that all of us can relate to pain. We break and don't fix easy. We break in different ways, at different times, for different reasons. We lose things. We get stuck in moments. We are slow to forgive, slow to change, slow to ask for help. Some are slow to truly love people.

It is easy to talk about love. Easy to write blogs about it, easy to talk about it on stages. Love, in that setting, is an idea, and ideas make for great conversations - inspiring even. It is another thing entirely to love people. I suppose it's because ideas are more comfortable than actions. It is a much more challenging gig to be a person who loves other people.

Love is a choice. It is an action. It looks like this:
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."

The truth is that I am a person in need, a broken person, a person who fails, often. I have a lot to learn. I have a long way to go.

Comments

[terrible-person.livejournal.com]

Here's to inspiring conversation, since love as you've defined it falls under the idea category in the setting you allowed in this entry, does it not?

And mostly I'll agree with you, with the exception of a few small phrases.

You speak of love and action... the idea and putting the idea into motion. I guess I don't really see it that way. You see it as a first you learn it then you use it. I suppose it makes sense. I just... like the idea better that love exists within and you don't have to learn to apply it to people... you just do. To me the idea and the action are the same, or one happens a millisecond preceding the other. I can see it, hear it, watch it, discuss it... and I feel love. Even thinking about it, you must have a specific person on your mind... maybe even more than one. And maybe the act of showing that love that you feel is difficult for you... maybe that process is slow. But the love isn't. The feeling isn't.

I don't relly think love is a choice the way that you speak of it. "Love" is not a choice. What you choose to do with that feeling... that's a choice. You can embrace it or shun it. You can accept it or push it away. Whatever you choose, the feeling exists. You can't choose whether or not to have the feeling.

The truth really is that we are all in need, we are all broken, and we all fail. We all have a lot to learn. And life? It's unrelenting. So the long way to go part is pretty much a given. So we reach out. We fix ourselves. We push on. You keep learning. You keep going. You're human, and you're flawed, but you're you. And I, for one, happen to think you're pretty great.

P.S. I love you.

[terrible-person.livejournal.com]

And on a side note, I can't write all the deep, intricate thoughts I was having cause you damn well beat me to the entry, and I'm not sure everyone on our mutual friends lists could handle both of us being all deep and intuitive at the same time. lol

Kayla*

[j-boo-bubbles.livejournal.com]

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just kidding i like this entry.