PERSONAL/JOURNAL/DATING: YESTERYEARS LOVE

I was thinking about loving and being loved recently and personally, I believe we may never feel the love of our yesteryears. Oh never say never!  Reality is the love I felt in our youth is forever gone.  The newness, the fresh uninhibited, the take my breath away love, is this truly love or lust?  In my youth was I blinded by lust and thought it was love?  

My thoughts about love are… There are many ways in which to love another, many depths of love itself.  Maybe this is why we have different feelings for different people, friends, family and people who move through our life. The question is …Will I feel loved again?

I believe I can, but the love of today will not feel or be the same as when I was younger.  It can be wonderful, wonderful for us individually just not as it was.  For many we are dreaming or even chasing the feeling of love we once felt and if we are  lucky to find love in another we often throw it away because it didn’t or wasn’t the same as what we had expected.

How can the feeling of love be the same as in our younger years if we are not the same as when we were younger?  What we have to understand is as we have grown and experienced life our feelings for life and others have also evolved.  Things, situations and relationships we once, thought were so important in our lives we have come to understand their true meaning.  We begin to see value and appreciate the smaller things in life.

With this being said, this is where love lies…in the value and appreciate of our self, our friendships and those who have touched us through our lives.  When we can get beyond the dreaming and chasing of love and truly begin to cherish what is before us we begin to see the open door of what can be.  For you see in order to feel love we have to be able to release the hurt and fear of yesteryears. We MUST be able to allow ourselves to give love and to be open to receive such love in return.  We need to begin to have faith in tomorrow and most of all appreciate life today.

The love I hope to find soon has its foundation built on years of experience and value. This love has all the functions of love from yesteryears the elements of feelings from within.  For you see one can achieve this love only if we believe and allow ourselves to truly love again.

Will I feel love again?  I know I will because just like everyone else, we all have the ability to give and receive love… We as individuals just need to make the choice.