Love Musings

Yesterday I saw old love. A husband and wife at lunch. She was in a wheelchair, very shaky and she would randomly drift of to sleep. He ordered for her and woke her when the meal was ready. He had to cut her food and at times feed her all the while waking her up and reminding her of where she was and what she was eating. You could tell it was wearing thin on the man. It was hard work and the pain and sadness was etched upon his face. I wondered how many years he has been doing this. I wondered how many years he would have to continue this. Sadder still was to realize he had to watch his wife deteriorate into a shell of what she used to be. But love forces us to carry on. Love forces us to bear whatever burden we have to bear in the name of love. No matter how hard.


Today I saw new love. A boyfriend and girlfriend at coffee. Fairly new at it, I am guessing. A lot of giggling and a lot of awkward pauses. Hoping to say the right things Hoping to perhaps touch a hand in a passing gesture. Each one sending out love clues hoping that the other will catch on. They would laugh at each other’s jokes and would share with each other about their “crazy” family. Their conversation tentative at first but with each passing moment a little more comfortable and a little more probing.

What is it about love that so captivates us? And I am talking about true love. There is indeed a great difference between true love and lust, infatuation, companionship, or whatever. True love always costs something. True love always demands something. True love will not be satisfied until it absorbs everything it can in the relationship. True love, I guess you can say, is greedy. True love is relentless. True love will not take anything less than everything