Thoughts on life and love

Love, when held tightly in one’s hand (just like anything in nature) will never grow. It will wither and die. The lesson of love that so few seem to learn is a direction. To fall in love and look solely at the one person, never glancing away–even with the best intentions–is to miss the larger picture. To love someone enough to look WITH them, in the direction of the future is to truly begin to understand the meaning of the well-battered, war-beaten word we know so little about.