Love is the Hot Topic (or the Heart Topic)

My readership increases by nearly double anytime I write about Love.  Clearly I am not the only person who desires Love in every form.  In the physical form, Love can be many things.  It can be that we take good care of our bodies...eat healthy and feel good from it, or the physical love can be a manifestation of intimate love as in touching and holding hands, kissing...etc.  Everyone on the planet needs love.  We need the various forms of love.  I always show affection to my children by talking to them, sharing with them, encouraging them and also by hugging and kissing and snuggling with them.  I love to rub their feet and just pamper them!  I want my children growing up knowing how it feels to be shown affection in every form so that they will never struggle to recognize the Truest and most real love when it appears in their lives.  Sadly, some people in my generation and generations before us were not afforded this kind of upbringing.  I like to surprise my children with not just experiences or gifts of things..but I also like to just do out-of-the ordinary things that are unexpected.  I enjoy seeing them react with surprise when I shift gears from being the grown-up to being the silly playmate...Love means staying in touch with your own inner child as you move into adulthood.

Romantic Love is a highly desirable thing in our society and mainly because people want a sex partner that they can count on and have a deep connection with.  No one wants to be hopping around from person to person hoping that whatever "new" feeling they got from being with that person doesn't fade too soon.  Otherwise, they will once again find themselves out there looking for someone new.  It has been very rare for the average man or woman to make true and deep connections these last few decades.  There has been so much planetary involvement and world-related difficulties that most people don't have the tools to properly navigate and make good choices.  Again, we must ask ourselves, "what is the criteria?"  Is it like Match.com and you have to be compatible on certain levels?  Is it determined by questionaire?  I have always wanted to join that dating site just to read that profile questionaire and see what kind of criteria they use to make the perfect love connections.  They seem to understand something about human nature...that we live our lives with the blinders on!  We walk around too afraid of being our true selves and so we hide our innermost passions and desires away from the eyes of the world.  It is hard to be out there...vulnerable.  It IS...I know.  I may have been sheltered from the world of "Being Single" for these last 15 years, but I still understand what people feel...I understand it because I can sense it in other ways.  I know what people need.  They need Love.  Love and companionship are NOT the same things.  On a dating site or in the dating world, or even married...you can have a companion...but having LOVE is something completely different.  The best you can ask for is to receive both companionship and love.  The way to receive it is to give it!  What you send out into the world, by way of giving or sharing, you receive back to you!  So get out there and LOVE EVERYBODY because YOU will be blessed enormously for it.  If you think you are lonely at home feeling sad, then immediately get up...put on shoes and head to the nearest bookstore, cafe or supermarket because I can tell you there are lonelier people than you out there.  A simple word of encouragement from you could make someone else's day.  It could be the very things that stops them from hurting or worse...hurting themselves or others.  Your act of kindness, driven by your desire to overcome your loneliness is the best cure to healing this world!  We are ALL connected.  What I say to you, affects you for better or for worse.  What I do to you...same thing.  Sometimes I don't know how to be around people lately because now I am fully aware of how my words and actions and merely my presence, can affect others.

Today I brought the children to the Impossible Dream Playground.  I think this place is a real treasure and it is simple, well-maintained and beautiful.  Being there today I felt I saw everything through fresh eyes...eyes that do not take for granted the smallest of details.  There are many ways to see the same thing.  On the one hand, this is a playground.  On the other hand, it is a child's Imagination come true.

Thanks for reading today

Lilac