What Is Love?

Love, a subject many write on, many try to find, and many hate. Love is at times to be considered unattainable, a myth of some sort. Well, whether or not you can attain it, here is my theory on what it is. Or what I think it is meant to be.

Love by defination is a strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties, according to Webster's dictionary online. But I feel there is more to it. Family love is special, not counting those sad occourances where one has decided they hate a certain family member. With family love you have something unconditional. It doesn't go away just because one happens to make a mistake. You love the relative despite their faults and are there for them. You inspire them to better themselves and be the best that they can be. At least this is what I feel a family love should be. Of course you are going to get mad at family member, and people in general for that matter. But the love just doesn't go away. To explain this more, I have to go into what love is in general.

Love is about respect, you respect the person for who they are and do not try to make them something they aren't. Love is about honesty, if you constantly lie to someone how are they supposed to trust you? How are they supposed to know who you are, therefore how are they supposed to respect you? Love is about helping one another. Someone you care about is in need, you help them out. Not because society tells you its good to do, and not because you get something out of it. You help them because you want that person to be alright. Because you care for them. To recieve love, you have to give love. You have to build a relationship with someone, and show them respect, show them honesty, and help them out; be kind to them. In return they will appreciate it, and do the same. Thus forming love.

I am probably not hitting this love thing right on the nose, but I do feel that I am in close proximity to it. I have had false love, and felt family love. I have genuine love for friends of mine as well. All of this that I have wrote, I wrote out of my life experiences. I'm not sure why I decided to write this, but here it is. Here for the world to read. Maybe you can take this text and be inspired to form your own thoughts on the subject. Or to go out and show the world what real love is. I could write forever on this topic, going off onto what a family should be, how to show respect, why you should be truthful, or why this world could use more love. But that writing would become a book and it is not time for me to write a book. Just a moderatly short theory on love.

Life Direction

Okay, so my life I think is headed down another path again. Its not a drastically life changing path. But it does change my life. I applied to North Georgia Technical College tonight. I will be going there for Criminal Justice degree. Funny thing is that I also have an opportunity to be a corrections officer in Blairsville, that is if I apply and pass the test. I am thinking about it. It would be a start to the law side of my life that I have an interest in. I really think it is the correct path for me...the start to my future. I have known for a long time, since around 8th grade, that I wanted to learn things in the area of law. Now I have the opportunity and I am pretty sure I am supposed to jump at it. I am going to sleep on the corrections officer job though. I applied for many other jobs and can pursue them too. But none of them have any future to them. They would just be temporary jobs until I start my career. Where as the corrections officer could help me with a future career. Opinions, thoughts, criticism?

Inspiration Comes From Many Places

The following is lyrics to a song called Eye of the Storm by the band Blindside. The lyrics rock my socks off and the socks rock my socks off even harder. But besides rocking socks they are kinda inspirational and you can get many different things from them. So check the lyrics out and the song. By the way all of Blindside's songs pretty much rock.

I think I've stayed for the last time, goodbye

Hope is so much closer to beauty than sorrow

I think I'll leave and leave self pity to die

Reflection is always brighter than shadow

Please come closer

Cause I don't even touch you anymore

Please see I'm walking in to the eye of the storm

And I'll still come out loving you even more

Love is in the air tonight

So just breathe

You made sure the atmosphere was thick tonight

So this is where it begins and where it ends

With a crack in a dark sky piercing light

Please come closer

Cause my heart doesn't touch yours anymore

Please see I'm walking into the eye of the storm

And I'll still come out loving you even more

Love is in the air tonight so just breathe

Breathe my spirit breathe

Love is in the air tonight so just breathe

Breathe my spirit breathe

leave, leave now and don't look back

leave, leave now and don't you look back

Please come closer

Cause I don't even touch you anymore

Please see I'm walking in to the eye of the storm

And I'll still come out loving you even more

Please come closer

Cause my heart doesn't touch yours anymore

Please see I'm walking in to the eye of the storm

And I'll still come out loving you even more

Think Positive

So I was feeling creative. Wasn't sure what kinda of creativity I was feeling but I grabbed a piece of paper and a pencil and started writing whatever popped into my mind. The end result was a message I thought I should voice and a message that I needed to hear myself. So now I am putting it on here for everyone to read that needs to. Enjoy:

Life, we all have to go through it. We all deal with the hardships it throws in our direction. Its how you handle the hardships that makes a difference. If you say, "woe is me, life is horrible," you will stay in the "dark" and happiness will constantly be an arms length out of reach. Smile at your difficulties, analyze them and realize why they weregiven to you. Then deal with them. Trudge your way through them back towards the "light." Think positve, yah, people always say that. But it is very true. If you surround yourself with negative thoughts, everything in your life will be negative. Surround yourself with positive thoughts. Be a "glass is half full" kind of person. Because if you are alive and are in general good health, you have the opportunity to make things better for yourself. Get out there, make the most of your life. Embrace it and love it, instead of curling up and withering away and dying.