I hope to be celebrating with my sweetie tonight over a scrumptious dinner of bison steak and raw oysters! And maybe some baked pear stuffed crepes drizzled with the tiniest amount of melted dark chocolate.
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And on this day dedicated to Love, I want to talk about Like.
I don't think I learned to fully Love until I better understood Like.
I had all the classic textbook behaviours and responses. Poor boundaries. Letting people in too easily. Sharing my story and my space, too soon. Accepting less than I deserved. Putting their needs before mine. Appeasing. Leaving behind a piece of myself each time I finally walked away.
How fickle my heart and how woozy my eyes (M&S 1)
Whenever I met someone new, I fell in Love, with the idea. Immediately. I saw everything I wanted, to see. I was blinded.
And so began the dance, the pitch, the performance. Marketing myself, driven by the fear of losing the opportunity.
If you stand for nothing, you will fall for anything.
So I started to take care of me. Started to get to know, me. I took myself away for my birthday - stayed at a B&B with a hot tub, took myself out for dinner and bought myself a ring. Because I was beginning to Like me.
And I made lists. Detailed lists of what I wanted. Which helped me become more Discerning. Still, I was giving too many chances. Stuck on the possibility. Wanting to prove myself right.
Then, finally, I turned that corner. Realized that I would rather assume guilt, until innocence was proven. Or, rather, Unknown until proven Known. Love was allowed to rest on the shelf, until Like had entered the room.
And chances were not given. It was freeing, to decide "I Don't Like".
And so I will be found
With my stake stuck in the ground
Marking the territory of this newly impassioned soul
You have neither reason nor rhyme
With which to take this soul that is so rightfully mine (M&S 2)
That's when I met the Love of my Life. In the most common of places. I took my time deciding if I truly Liked him. All of him. And he was busy teaching me about Love.
Now I have both, Like and Love. I don't think I could have had one without the other.
And when I started to realize that I truly Liked me, our Love blossomed even more.
How glad I was to be myself
And use my heart once more
And love that (man) that I adore
Well my eyes shall see light again
And my heart shall bleed right again (M&S 3)
1. Mumford and Sons - Awake my Soul
2. Mumford and Sons - Roll Away your Stone
3. Mumford and Sons - Banjolin Song
5 comments:
Beautiful, just beautiful!
I love, "I don't like..." And I plan on using that discerning eye (and heart!) fo' sho'! Because I'm beginning to like me. Maybe for the first time in years. Or ever!
Happy Like Day, CS:) Love ya!
Oh yeah, and I'm definitely falling in like with Mumford and Sons- who knows, maybe it will turn into love?
I learned that with my current boyfriend. At first we just wanted to be friends cause we thought we were cool and such but things progressed and well. Here we are now :)
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@Yvonne - Oh! Thank you :) *blushing*
@Em - Yo! I'm in on that "or ever". Dang it feels good, don't it? :) I'm lucky to love ya too!
@Adorkable - That's awesome! I think everybody needs to be able to declare that their someone special is really cool. And themselves! :)
Lovely post! I "like" this idea. Perhaps we need more like in the world, more than love.
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