Today’s Just Be thought
This one is on love. It’s easy to get caught up in the moment with love and then get caught up in the moment when we think love has gone MIA.
I think love is like road trip.
Somewhere around hour 8 of a 20 hour trip I start wondering if this is really worth it. Technically I can turn around and go home and still be on the road less time than if I continue. The idea of pushing on to the end becomes honestly questionable at that point.
Same with love.
When I go on a road trip I have a destination in mind. I have a reason for getting on that road. That’s why I always end up completing the journey.
Love should be like that too. We should have a goal in mind and a reason for putting ourselves out in a vulnerable place.
And, like on a road trip, love should be an Adventure. We should absolutely live in the moment, in the ups and downs, in the excited rush of the start and in the dull hummmmmm of the wheels repeating their seemingly endless rolling over and over again. Love is more than, and deeper than, just the heated, fiery moments of excitement.
Just like we look off the side of the road on a trip and grab a spontaneous family break at the roadside attraction or cafe, we ought do the same in love. Grab that porch picnic lunch, play a game together, read the same book together and compare notes.
Be in the moment together, on an adventure. Adventures can be small as well as grand.
Here’s the quote:
“Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.”
E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly, (Gadfly Saga, #1)