Love

Can anyone define true love? Some people think they can, but very few actually know what love really is. To me, love is having someone else's happiness be truly more important than your own. I can truly define love. I have loved many people in my life. Several that I have loved truly. The details of how I know this, I will keep to myself. Suffice it to say that I have put their needs and wants above my own. I have protected their secrets so that they could move on with their life in the direction they need to go. I have let go when I wanted to hold on. I have stood by as they moved onto to areas they thought they wanted or needed to go, knowing it was the wrong way. Who am I to say what will make someone happy? What will fulfill them? People are essentially selfish creatures. I am happy to say I am not one of them. I could have destroyed several lives with my own selfishness, but I didn't. I could have broken many hearts along the way, but it isn't my job. Instead, I sit back and pray for the ones I love/loved to find what it is to give them the peace and happiness in their lives that will complete them. This gives me peace.

My life is certainly not the fairy tale I once thought it would be when I was a child. It isn't even the happily ever after I thought it would be when I was a young adult. What it is is peaceful, happy, satifsfying, and full of true love. :-)