Love

"There comes a point where you just love someone. Not because they're good or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just means you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes becayse of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it."- from "Incubus Dreams", Laurell K. Hamilton, pg 383-384

Above is a quote from a book from one of my favourite series', but that's not why I posted it. I posted it because it's a great quote. I think it sums things up pretty nicely.

I've never been in love of the romantic sense. Maybe thought I might be, maybe even something in the same ballpark, but never real love. I've never been truly in love--I think I'd need a relationship that lasted more than a couple weeks for that.

However, I have loved people, of course. Lot's of people and the quote still has some relevance. Not with familial love, since you love your family from the moment they come into your life and you always will, but with friends and such. There certianly comes a point when you make an active choice to love someone and for all kinds of reason. Sometimes, just because they're there when you need them or because they've always been there for as long as you can remember.

I couldn't tell you the exact reason why I love any of my friends. I could tell you positive and negative's about each of them. But I couldn't pinpoint the exact reasons, I chose them as friends, why they each have their own place in my heart. I couldn't even tell you the moment that I made the choice to love them, but it no longer matters. What matters is that I do love them.

I like to think it was because I chosen to love these people and they were chosen to love me. That somewhere along the line, our lives were meant to cross. That in the grand scheme of thing, I have something to learn from them. Or something they have to learn from me. Love is what helps us grow as people.

Will I still love all these people in twenty years? Maybe, maybe not. I know that already there are people who have passed out of my life, who were once really important to me. Maybe in twenty years, some of the people I love now will only be faces in a photo albulm. There's no guarentee how long any of us are going to be here. Life doesn't come with guarentees.

But even if they aren't going to be in my life forever, they're still so precious to me now. I wouldn't give up a moment with any of my friends and I'm so glad I got the chance to have them in my life, that I got to love them.

Besides, even if the friendships don't last forever a part of the love lingers. You keep a place in your heart for everyone you loved at one point in you life, even if it's only a tiny little corner that you don't look in very often.

Love is still love. No matter why you love someone or for how long, it's still love.

Ok, I'm done being sappy, but I still love the quote.