Friday
Love
"You can't hold onto something that really wants to go. All you can do is love it while you've got it." - Mrs. Dump, Because of Winn Dixie-
In life, love can be a fleeting thing. People and things we love seem to always be leaving. I realize now that we really don't have any control over it. We can't hold onto someone hard enough that they will stay. All we can do is love them while they are with us. We can't make someone be the type of person they should be. I can't save someone. The choice is always theirs. All we can do is show them love, and pray that that is enough. I hope that the people that I have lost in my life have been shown love by me. I think of the many people that I seem to have lost all at once recently. I just hope that I loved them enough. What is enough? Do they know how much I loved them? I sure hope so, and in the end, that is all we have- hope.
In life, love can be a fleeting thing. People and things we love seem to always be leaving. I realize now that we really don't have any control over it. We can't hold onto someone hard enough that they will stay. All we can do is love them while they are with us. We can't make someone be the type of person they should be. I can't save someone. The choice is always theirs. All we can do is show them love, and pray that that is enough. I hope that the people that I have lost in my life have been shown love by me. I think of the many people that I seem to have lost all at once recently. I just hope that I loved them enough. What is enough? Do they know how much I loved them? I sure hope so, and in the end, that is all we have- hope.
# posted by thoughts to the universe : Friday, September 09, 2005
