what is love ?
January 31st, 2011 § Leave a Comment
love liberates, she writes, love doesn’t hold but instead gives freedom. another reminds me that love demands protection, that it will die if you do not safeguard it.
not just romantic love, but love love.
while these two thoughts could seem, on the surface, at war with one another, i understand and believe both, though i have been unsure how to operate under these terms.
having said that, one thing has been made clear to me as of late:
he looks happy.
pictures of his laughing, smiling face float in the online universe like exploding stars begging me to smile back. he made a decision to live a life without me in it, not just without me as a partner but without me as a friend, and he seems to be doing well. better, even.
that’s what i want for him, finally — to be happy. that, i’m sure of, and can’t justify asking for more.
maybe that’s what love is.
