Inner Perspective: Look How Far We Have Come!

Since my husband and I took the leap into our life journey together through the military soooooo much has changed. In 5 short years we have lived various places, seen vast amounts of country, and achieved so much in our lives together. My hubby has finally started back going to school and I'm almost done with my BA in Psychology and Criminal Justice. We have acquired more family members, fur children, along the way with each move we've made. We each have gotten a new vehicles, something neither of us were planning on. We have met some great people and some not so greats. Gone to some amazing churches! It has been so easy to fall in love with each place we lived. With each move we are saddened but excited at the same time to see what next amazing thing will take place. It has been a journey and I'm so excited to see where we head next! 3 more years in WA then who knows!

The Ceaseless Question: What is love?

Love a never ending synonymous word. When we think of love we all have different connotations in our lexicon about what it entails. Most of us have a misconstrued conception that movies, novels, and television places into our ideals of what love actually is. Affection, adoration, friendship, fondness, passion, fancy, and adore are just some words that come to mind when we hear this magical word “love”. In reality the actual thing does not always live up to our expectations but yet there is another side to this arduous word. Usually we assume that to love it must be fully and without end however, this is not always the case. True love is not an all-day affair of consuming thoughts but something more. It is the little bits of fondness one displays to someone they care for when they bring flowers or put thought into a personal gift. It is the affectionate look you see not always, but every once in a while shared between two people who care deeply for one another. It is the passionate way someone will defend the person they care most sincerely about when others beguile them. Or perhaps it is the adoration of that proud mother in the stands watcher her son or daughter become a graduate? While we all could argue that yes love is constant it is not this unrealistic ideal that society has placed on this poor singular word. This one term has to live up to a vast community of different philosophies, implications, and expressions. Each language has their own word for love but yet not one language can singularly define it. So next time you think about saying I love you to someone think of the various implications you could be telling that person. We say the word so haphazardly and throw it around like telling someone the time that we do not truly respect nor value it anymore. For me personally I feel differently each time I say it depending on who I say it to and in which of the various ways I mean it. For me it is not just a single word but a vast expanse of different definitions with a different meaning each and every time I state it dependent upon the circumstances of that specific time. Do not fret though because while love like the movies is not quite as magical 24/7 it is real but in small doses.