Do you think any of us
know how to love?! Do you think anybody would ever do anything if they waited
until they knew how to love?! Do you think that babies would ever get made or
meals cooked or crops planted or books written or what God-damn-have-you? Do you
think people would even get out of bed in the morning if they waited until they
knew how to love? You have had too much therapy. Or not enough. God knows how
to love, kiddo. The rest of us are only good actors. Forget love. Try good
manners. [Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of
the Ya-Ya Sisterhood]
I thought for a Very Long Time that I’d missed the week when
they were teaching How To Love. I mean, Love, like the No Matter What and You
Can Count On Me sort. MayBE I just had teachers who taught me Love was
dangerous, difficult, and definitely NOT in my skillset.
Now I know something quite different. HOW?! is never the
right question. It’s NOT even the point. Love is bigger than words can express,
but it’s NOT BEyond my grasp.
Or anyone else’s.
Sometimes I wonder if
any of us are cut out for the lives we lead. [Rebecca
Wells, Little Altars Everywhere]
Still, I/we DO the best I/we can.
I love you, Currie
1 comment:
Unconditional love...well, I wonder if that comes naturally to us humans. I think that must be strived for and practiced...absorbed into your being over time. But it is the most beautiful and miraculous. We all recognize it. We seem to understand it even if we have never seen it. We all want it. But we seem to spend less time learning how to give it...to be it--LOL!
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