why can't we *tweet* about love?

may.2008

(interesting words, not mine, on love and breakups)

• "Everyone tells me I should forget about you, you don’t deserve me. They’re right, you don’t deserve me, but I deserve you."
• "I don’t miss him, I miss who I thought he was."
• "It’s hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone when your heart still does."
• "Sometimes the person you really need is the one you didn’t think you wanted."
• "Moving on is simple, it’s what you leave behind that makes it so difficult."
• "Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew."
• "Never be sad for what is over, just be glad that it was once yours."
• "I was born the day I met you, lived a while when you loved me, died a little when we broke apart."
• "The worst way to love someone is to sit next to them, knowing they don’t love you back."
• "You don’t realize how much you care about someone until they don’t care about you."

• "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." - Sophocles
• "We love because it's the only true adventure." - Nikki Giovanni
• "Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong
• "Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Mark Twain
• "Love is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day." - Nicholas Sparks
• "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." - Peter Ustinov
• "Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Elizabeth Browning
• "The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: 1) To return love for hate; 2) To include the excluded; and 3) To say 'I was wrong.'" - Ernst Heinrich Haeckel
• "We learn only from those we love." - Johann Von Eckermann
• "I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life." - D. H. Lawrence
• "Whoso loves believes the impossible." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Do you trust your GPS?

10, May, 2010

Nowadays everyone seems to have a GPS. If people don’t have cars, there GPS is on their phone. If people don’t have phones, their GPS is on their computer. If people don’t have computers they probably have a tracking device embedded into their skin that alerts them if they are going the wrong way. Ok, the last was probably a bit extreme, but you never know. People use their GPS for directions, but only driving or walking directions: transportation. What about the GPS for relationships? What about the GPS for school? What about the GPS for work? What about the GPS for friends? What about the GPS for life? Well, God (the higher power in which you believe, whoever he/she/it is) is just like a GPS. In relationships men and women alike pray for that perfect love. They pray that someone will come and whisk them away. They pray that they will find the perfect man or woman to spend the rest of their life with. Again I say, God is just like a GPS. When you are at point A and input point B into your GPS, what happens? A route comes up, right? Do all of the orange barrels pop up to tell you where construction is? Do flashing lights come up to tell you which street lights are out? Do police cars pop up to tell you where “trouble areas” are? Do potholes pop up to let you know which streets are bad? Do hearses show up to tell you where the funerals will be? Does rain show up to tell you where the flood waters may come in? Do barricades show up to let you know which streets are closed? NO! None of these things show up in your GPS. In life, God is the same way. Point A is where you are the day you pray your prayer. Point B is where you are when you are introduced to your answer. As far as relationships go, your wedding day is your point B. But, on your way to the altar, God shows up, God shows out. God tests you. God guides you. God helps you. God prepares you. God scares you. God tempts you. God watches you. God carries you. But most importantly, God teaches you. I was at point A once and I have thought I was at point B. But, on the day that I wed, my point B will be clear as day. I trust my GPS, but all of this construction, these street lights being out, these “trouble areas”, these potholes, these funerals, this rain, these closed streets …. All of these things are just making my journey a little bit longer. But, it is the best journey for me. And, I will rejoice, trust and have faith in my GPS until (and past) I reach point B.