Dreamed, awoke, grabbed pen & paper:
I am driving through a mountain pass, ignoring the beauty around me, and only focused on my relationship with my car. What make, model, how it’s running, etc. That’s how I’ve been looking at human relationships. When I focus on them, they become everything, and I miss the magic of all that is. I closed myself to the beauty of the universe.
This is a bad analogy still—I’ve made me the driver and You the car. Which still means I have control issues AND I’m making You the vehicle.
Ok, what if You and I are walking through a mountain pass. We only look at each other, and we miss the beauty of the world. And we’d fall off a cliff. Because maybe, “Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.” -Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Later: I don't need to make mountains out of molehills.
Monday, July 20, 2009
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2 comments:
I love the analogy. This is what I have been thinking about love. We have extracted a little part of it and called that love. Then we all obsess over that little part, actually missing on the vastness of love.
Agreed! When we think of love, we think of "romantic" love -- eros.
Not that there's anything wrong with eros : ) But there's a whole big wide world of love, a universe of it!
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