An interesting title with numbers & words. This is because I want what has been on my mind lately to really reach your heart. That is love(5683 is the number scheme for love on a telephone dial pad). The reason love is on my mind, and always has been, is because I feel like in todays society we have lost touch with true love. Everyone is searching for that picture perfect, hollywood movie type, Nashville #1 hit love story they can call their own. But in this rush to find that one true love, we get impatient, we get discouraged, we get deceived. This is because we let our judgement get clouded by emotions. We feel that by just saying, I love you, is enough. I'm here to tell you it's not! In fact those 3 words are being overused, in a sense, to overcompensate for the lack of responsibility love takes. Love is not a word, it is an action. And the perfect way for me to describe it is like a puzzle: Love is NOT finding someone perfect, without flaws, without scars, without past mistakes. Love IS about finding someone who isn't perfect, someone who has flaws, scars, past mistakes. And when you find that person and can love them because those flaws make them who they are, you can then begin to realize that you are not perfect. That your flaws, scars, and past mistakes make you unique as well. The reason it is so important to have those flaws, those scars, and those past mistakes...is because we are human! The flaws, scars, and past mistakes the one you love has, may be the very areas in your life you have strengths in. And the very weaknesses you have, may be her/his areas of strength. And it is when these offset weaknesses and strengths are recognized and not hidden away, that you can begin to fit your lives together and create a true love. Just like the pieces of a puzzle reveal the clear picture you tried to see in the beginning. It is this intertwined strengths that make the foundation for a true love that will last a lifetime and beyond. A love that transcends the grave. A love that the very fabric of life was built upon.
I hope this jumbled mess of my thoughts, and terrible punctuation haha, can be clear enough to help you reevaluate the way you look and approach love.
Stephen
