I Want to Be Loved
Don't we all want to be loved. We all want that special person to come home to. That person who's quite look can make the whole day better. The person who can sit with you and let you know you aren't alone. The person that makes the darkness less scary. We all long to be accepted and known. We all long to be truly loved by someone who can see us as we really are.
There are many kinds of love in this world. To be well rounded people with a full experience of life we need all kinds of love. We all crave first the nurturing protective tender love of our mother. She brought us out of her own body and gave us life from her breast. She is the one that will make us feel safe when we are in pain. Then we need the daring exciting love from our father. The love that teaches us how to stand on our own two legs, that shows us the thrill of something a little less safe than perhaps mother would like. We grow and age. We seek out the companionship and love of friends. People with similar interests that we can enjoy spending time with. People we laugh and cry with. People we learn to communicate and fight with. People that help us learn who we are. Our bodies change and we see some of those friends a little different than we used to. A new kind of love is awoken, in some ways the most powerful kind. The desire for a lover, for a companion to know the deepest parts of ourselves, to be completely vulnerable with, and to love without any restraint. The journey to find that person is so often a hard one.
We all have experienced some of these loves to different degrees and in different ways. But we are all human and no love is ever perfect. We all have hurts and pains. we all have wounds of the soul we carry from our mother and father. We all have bleeding hearts from friendships past and loves broken. All these things can make us want to curl up in a ball and close of our hearts from the world, to not let anyone close enough to hurt us. But life without love is hardly worth living. There may be a time, a season, a year where we find it too hard to find. People don't seem to see us, but this too will pass. We must keep loving at every cost. Let us be smart, be wise, and love freely.
We all desire that special love. But let us not lose sight of the companionships that matter so much. The brotherly and sisterly love. The guys night out that means so much though nobody ever says it. The girls movie night where secrets are told and laughs heard. We all want to be loved and known. We all want to be loved and be accepted for who we are. We all want to know that people enjoy spending time with us as we enjoy spending time with them. We want to know that we make them happy as they make us happy. We want to ride the ups and downs of life with them.
There are many kinds of love in this world. To be well rounded people with a full experience of life we need all kinds of love. We all crave first the nurturing protective tender love of our mother. She brought us out of her own body and gave us life from her breast. She is the one that will make us feel safe when we are in pain. Then we need the daring exciting love from our father. The love that teaches us how to stand on our own two legs, that shows us the thrill of something a little less safe than perhaps mother would like. We grow and age. We seek out the companionship and love of friends. People with similar interests that we can enjoy spending time with. People we laugh and cry with. People we learn to communicate and fight with. People that help us learn who we are. Our bodies change and we see some of those friends a little different than we used to. A new kind of love is awoken, in some ways the most powerful kind. The desire for a lover, for a companion to know the deepest parts of ourselves, to be completely vulnerable with, and to love without any restraint. The journey to find that person is so often a hard one.
We all have experienced some of these loves to different degrees and in different ways. But we are all human and no love is ever perfect. We all have hurts and pains. we all have wounds of the soul we carry from our mother and father. We all have bleeding hearts from friendships past and loves broken. All these things can make us want to curl up in a ball and close of our hearts from the world, to not let anyone close enough to hurt us. But life without love is hardly worth living. There may be a time, a season, a year where we find it too hard to find. People don't seem to see us, but this too will pass. We must keep loving at every cost. Let us be smart, be wise, and love freely.
We all desire that special love. But let us not lose sight of the companionships that matter so much. The brotherly and sisterly love. The guys night out that means so much though nobody ever says it. The girls movie night where secrets are told and laughs heard. We all want to be loved and known. We all want to be loved and be accepted for who we are. We all want to know that people enjoy spending time with us as we enjoy spending time with them. We want to know that we make them happy as they make us happy. We want to ride the ups and downs of life with them.
