Why do we offer diamonds on rings of engagement? Love is far more priceless and organic. Though both share a common experience of expressing great beauty through the stress of high pressure, Love is more than that. Yes, both may begin as a lump of coal only to become years later the crystalline celebration. However, diamonds with their 4 “c”s never match the consistency and creative, compassion and challenge of love.
Love is a challenge. A marathon is a challenge against distance and time, both of which wait for our arrival and never step forward to kick us in the gut. Sometimes, love is less kind. Sometimes love kicks us in the gut and then drags us through the marathon, unwilling participants we are.
Love is compassion. Those who share love share deep compassion for others who share love. The scarlet letter “L” is the symbol of a club. Regardless of the truth “better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”, those who love share a kindred bond with those similarly afflicted. When true, dost any other cure so mend brokenness?
Love is creative. Let me count the ways I love thee? Let me count the ways I have loved, been loved, raced from and stumbled toward love. When glimpsed the loved have I, numerous are the rationalizations I have that it is real. Face to Face with the other, obstacles melt in my ability to hug even a cactus.
Love is consistency. Are the mistakes of anything else so easily forgotten or more often ignored? Classic are the stories of love in its many phases for consistent is the experience. As unique as we want to be, claim to be, try to be - when sharing the story of our love, smiles contagious greet our telling.
Comprehensive is not this tale. Love far more complex than to be caught by any caricature. Aside, unlike a diamond readily enumerated from price to carrot, Love’s elusive nature continues to compel us to communal embrace and curled toes.
Happy Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day, Anniversary, Wedding Announcement, and the cacophony of celebrations of love . . .
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