“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it."”

  Audrey Hepburn quote : Adopted by Gordon Mays Baird

Love is just a selfish unexplained devotion we have to someone we meet on life’s path.

Yet it is more powerful than power and Money combined.

Maybe friendship is greater as this is a consenting union of minds,

a real caring about each other,

a true concern

about each other’s happiness.

Love has many guises

not just the

"I want to screw you" one.

True love just happens, we don't select it.

Perhaps it is much better just to dream of being in love

rather than to actually love someone.

Loving only hurts.

So much.

When we first fall in love, and take that first kiss the wise sadly know  that we will soon let each other down.

We all are so very weak, vanity, greed, power, are some of the many things that will split apart lovers.

We met only briefly on life’s path, and loved just to be together.

There was love, but perhaps not the soul mate attraction.

We supplied a need within each other, a brief holding of hands as we crossed a stony path, helping each other to the other side.

Then clasped together we would hold each other through the dark hours of night, until the sun arose the next day.

When we were safe we just sadly drifted apart, separating, to live our lives.

She left behind with me her love, and it still helps sometimes when I am alone, just the memory of the closeness.

Now as distant friends we hardly know each other, yet the love is never forgotten, just softened.

We look, our eyes meet and we say thank you to each other, thank you for the love!

A view of Love.

As I have found out to my own cost, it is so surprising how when we first meet, and fall in love, we can exist on anything, and nothing, food and life’s rules are of no importance all is love. Everywhere becomes a wonderful place to be, as long as we are with our new love. We can live anywhere as long as we are together; every minute is devoted to our new love. We are exploring our new companions mind, and body finding with surprise how alike we are, and yet how different, how we share so much in common. Also sharing personal loves in art, music and books, we feel invincible as if our love is the best the world has ever seen, and it will last forever. All we want and need is each other and to be together.

Then it seems that after a time, due to the demands of life and the world, we have to let both life, and friends into this close nest of cherished love and devotion. The moment that this applies, things seem to begin to go wrong.

 I think that this is the turning point of many marriages or relationships when the doors are opened and the world and our friends enter. As friends we see the close love of two people, it seems so nice that instinctively we long to be a part of that love. At this stage selfish ignorant people enter the relationship, as friends, hoping to lure away one of the partners, for their own selfish needs, only to drop them after a short time, realizing it was lust not love they felt, but it was a love of love.

They then leave the poor lost soul who was tempted away, to try and rekindle the loving, yet now devastated relationship they had left behind,  which was their true love relationship.

One girl I knew met a producer working for television he destroyed her life and her children’s lives, by taking her away from her family with promises of fame, then he soon dumped her, unable to stand her small quirks, which her last lover had adored. He quickly moved on to his next conquest, again saying “I will make you famous,” on and on totally unrepentant, destroying so many silly women's lives.

This sad story happens so often in life. So, the longer that we exist in the blissful state of love thinking that we do not need anything, from outside of the relationship, the longer we are existing in a fool’s paradise, as one eventful day we must open the relationship to the world, as we all exist only by the help of others, who will flood in like wild animals franticly grabbing at anything available, then unless we are very strong the relationship will fail.

 Holding hands reading and writing poetry to each other, the long cuddles, that allow the very essence of your love to penetrate the souls of our loved one, we know will, one day soon be over. If you feel an overwhelming love for someone and wish just to be alone with that person, then you are foolish for the quicker that love is open to the harsh world, and friends, then the better it is for all concerned.

A true love can without question withstand the tribulations of normal life. A true love can survive our friends, as it is mostly friends who supply the help in life, and sadly the harm. I at this time think of the difference in paid caring and caring through love. As Bill Gates and others will soon find out there are no funds that can replace love, and wealth can often become a stumbling block as well as an asset in life.

After considerable meditation and thought I think the sole purpose of life is to help others, and this is how we will be judged one day, how we helped others in this life. Wealth I feel is a stumbling block on the way to heaven. There are children’s hospitals begging for money to help sick children in the U.S.A. yet it is the wealthiest country in the World. If there is a God, which I do believe there is, then what is the point of our stay on earth except to learn to help others and to teach love by example. Let some of the wealthy start a health care system in the USA as we have in Europe, then the people who really care will have made poverty no excuse for dying.  

Those who hold out a hand to help their fellow travellers are never wealthy, as they cannot sit to one side, polishing coins, while watching someone else suffer.

It seems that so many sayings that we accept in life are so wrong and misleading.

The whole Santa myth must be stopped now, as how can we respect authority when we grow up

after they have lied to us when we were children?

Time heals:- Every day I miss my dear sister Liz and so many more!

Time eases the pain but it will never heal.

Loosing your Love, your soul mate hurts for ever.

Be very brave, be truthful to your children.

If we all have manners there will be no wars.