The Love Rant
May. 15th, 2002 08:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ebonlockIt's come to my attention lately that a lot of people I know either feel they're unworthy of being in a loving relationship or are simply too unwilling to take a chance and tell the person they adore how they feel. Allow me to don my little black feathery wings and grab my bow because as far as I know Cupid doesn't have an LJ so I'll just have to stand in for him. I know what he'd say to each and every person reading this right now, he'd say "Take a chance, get in the game, life is about risk and it's not worth living without it."
Yeah, love is a risk, a big one. You stand to get hurt, really hurt by it and believe me I'm not saying this to be glib. I'll admit a few years ago I didn't even know what the emotion was, oh I understood it on a rational level but I hadn't experienced it beyond adoring my friends and loving my family. I wasn't looking for it, but when the opportunity presented itself I took it, and I don't regret that. Ok, so in the end it turned into a disaster, I grant you that, but I don't have a single regret about making the effort or taking the chance. Sure I got hurt, but dammit I tried, and that's what's important.
So, dear readers, what am I proposing to each and every one of you? If you've got someone you care about, someone you think you love, or could love, go talk to them. Don't wait another day, tell them how you feel and take that risk. Remember, loving someone is a gift, both to you and to them. Sure they might not be able to return it, but that doesn't diminish it. And if anyone ever tries to make you feel bad for caring deeply about them that's their problem, not yours.
Fantasies are nice and safe, they can't hurt you, they always do precisely what you want them to. But they don't challenge you, they don't teach you new things about the world and yourself, they don't do anything but help you maintain a stagnant status quo. Break free of it, you can do it. And if you need a hand to hold while you do mine's always available.
Make this the week you tell the person you care most for that you love them, don't wait any longer.
Here endeth the rant.
Yeah, love is a risk, a big one. You stand to get hurt, really hurt by it and believe me I'm not saying this to be glib. I'll admit a few years ago I didn't even know what the emotion was, oh I understood it on a rational level but I hadn't experienced it beyond adoring my friends and loving my family. I wasn't looking for it, but when the opportunity presented itself I took it, and I don't regret that. Ok, so in the end it turned into a disaster, I grant you that, but I don't have a single regret about making the effort or taking the chance. Sure I got hurt, but dammit I tried, and that's what's important.
So, dear readers, what am I proposing to each and every one of you? If you've got someone you care about, someone you think you love, or could love, go talk to them. Don't wait another day, tell them how you feel and take that risk. Remember, loving someone is a gift, both to you and to them. Sure they might not be able to return it, but that doesn't diminish it. And if anyone ever tries to make you feel bad for caring deeply about them that's their problem, not yours.
Fantasies are nice and safe, they can't hurt you, they always do precisely what you want them to. But they don't challenge you, they don't teach you new things about the world and yourself, they don't do anything but help you maintain a stagnant status quo. Break free of it, you can do it. And if you need a hand to hold while you do mine's always available.
Make this the week you tell the person you care most for that you love them, don't wait any longer.
Here endeth the rant.
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*smirk*
Date: 2002-05-15 09:32 am (UTC)Re: *smirk*
Date: 2002-05-15 09:34 am (UTC)Re: *smirk*
Date: 2002-05-15 09:38 am (UTC)Woo baby, Aphrodite costume. You do realize that you'd have to fend off most of the confessors if you dispensed advice on lust while looking like that, right?
Re: *smirk*
Date: 2002-05-15 10:15 am (UTC)Re: *smirk*
Date: 2002-05-15 04:09 pm (UTC)I think she could do a similar one to the icon, only in red and gold, maybe. ;)
stop drooling, people. ;)
Re: *smirk*
Date: 2002-05-15 04:10 pm (UTC)Re: *smirk*
Date: 2002-05-15 04:40 pm (UTC)Re: *smirk*
Date: 2002-05-15 10:26 pm (UTC)feathery wings..
Date: 2002-05-15 10:19 am (UTC)Ohyeah, and you rock. ;)
Re: feathery wings..
Date: 2002-05-15 10:25 am (UTC)And just so you know, you and Earl are one of the couples that gives me a lot of faith in the state of love in the world today };)
Re: feathery wings..
Date: 2002-05-15 10:59 am (UTC)Try this. the last two pictures on the page are cool feathery wings. These people do reallly cool work. I have two of their masks. :)
Re: feathery wings..
Date: 2002-05-15 11:08 am (UTC)Re: feathery wings..
Date: 2002-05-15 11:20 am (UTC)Oh, and since I failed to say it before, as I was too busy being a smartass--I agree that Ellie rocks, and if I was actually anything other than in lust with anyone, I'd act on her advice. ^_^ Instead, maybe I'll just join her in shooting arrows, as I've got a great pair of black wings, too.
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