"Love is war", these famous words used by many authors, poems etc, pack so much meaning. Three simple words and yet they have seemingly endless view points. I began thinking about this today, usually we relate love to kindness, happiness, things of light spirit. Why would we ever relate love to almost its polar opposite being war? Well lets think about it, when you love someone you fight for them, your willing to do anything to protect them, make them happy and so on. Same goes for when you love something, you protect it and keep it safe at all costs. People go to war and fight for our country why? Because they love it. When you love and respect something or someone you don't care about the cost, you simply fight till the death if needed. Love is war because in a relationship your always fighting against obstacles trying to tear you apart. Love is war because its something worth fighting for and fighting with. Love is war because its a fight against all odds.
I feel there is something not talked about enough, everyone knows the feeling of failure. We all make mistakes, comes with being human, we all cope with that. How though do we cope when unplanned mistakes take place, I know your wondering what on earth I mean by this, most mistakes are unplanned… I am referring to the mistakes, the trials that occur even when the “rules” are followed, those that incur even when perhaps we have done everything right that is within in our power. This takes a different type of coping, paired with an even greater understanding and matched with yet a greater perspective. In order to cope and heal from these unplanned mistakes we need to evaluate what was within our control and what was genuinely not. Often times when things go wrong we immediately blame and criticize ourselves because let’s be real, that is much easier than accepting the unknown and accepting the true lack of control we had over the situation. It is facing this fact though that allows for
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