What is love?

Love makes the world go round. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It does not dishonor others, 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.We accept the love we think we deserve.You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged cupid painted blind. Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it. It's better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. One is loved because one loved. No reason is needed for loving. We love the things we love for what they are.Where there is love there is life. So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you. Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary. We loved with a love that was more than love. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. Love is a fire, but whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell. Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. When love is not madness it is not love. If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.


                                 What is love? Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more!

 

You're so vain

When I write my blogs I do get the information that I write about from watching other people. Mostly by the people that are around me, or interact with on social media. Who else would I write about? The blog title is "Its been on my mind" after all. I mean, don't get me wrong I have experienced most of the things I write about, but in general all of us have. I stopped blogging for a while because of the angry messages I would receive from friends who thought I was blogging about them. In most cases I was, but I never used names, and I only wrote the things that really happened. I never write a blog to be mean spirited. Maybe they just didn't like the way they were perceived by me, and need to justify behavior they don't realize they are doing. I seem to offend people by writing about their actions.

I have been written about in the past by a former friend who is a blogger. He did inspire me to write. I won't mention his name, but I didn't like the way I was perceived by him either. It did get me thinking about if others perceived me the same way. Was I playing a victim to my own circumstances, or was I really a victim? Well, after some pondering I realized you can't be a victim unless you allow it, and it helped me to "own it" like he suggested in his blog. It did help me to move forward. I'm in no way saying I have all the answers when I write, but I would like to get others to think about how they are perceived. Do I think he wrote the blog about me to be mean? No. In fact I'm pretty sure he's quite fond of me, but I do think all of us need to see how the world perceives us so we can be the best people we can be.

           I actually returned the favor, and wrote a blog about him. Can you guess which one?