LOVE

What is love? I have often asked myself this question and wondered if this is an emotion denied to me because I have no single longstanding relationship. I have come to the conclusion that there are many kinds of love and that the act of loving is not a single feeling directed to only one person. It is a pathway, that is, a way of living, acting and reacting. I also believe that a truly loving person suffers because people think he is stupid and easily duped. They mistake kindness for thick-headedness. I have had many of my efforts to reach out and give boomerang because of this and I feel sure others have had acts of kindness come back to haunt them.
I think when one has a family it becomes easy to say I love my partner, my children, my family. I as a single woman know how much I cherish my three puppies, but I also cherish people in general and my friends specifically. It is this nameless good feeling about the human condition and its participants that I have come to think is the real kind of love we all seek. That feeling encompasses life and all its players even though the people sometimes change or fade away.