Points of Light, I had a conversation with someone this morning, and it caused an explosion of thoughts to cascade in my mind. While allowing myself to feel an emotion with full acceptance hasn't truly resonated in me with its requisite total abandonment, I can't see any harm if that happened. A simple question from my conversation gave me light enough for profound contemplation, I count that as a good thing. Maybe, what you're talking about with someone has the same fragments of light wanting to give you color and some precious beauty to ponder yourself. Could you at least consider this might be true?
Emotions. I mean, they're interesting. I've heard they can drain you of energy, or they can send you soaring. With a single emotion, your heart can be made to smile, and in a single emotion, a sad tear can be made to track down your cheek.
Earlier today as I listened to Dave Loggins sing "Please Come to Boston", I felt compelled to think about some emotions. I found this experience, well, it was an experience I enjoyed. Mind you, I did one of my thought experiments to have this experience happen. In my thought experiment, I thought about how when someone is so passionate that they're driven at all costs to follow their dreams, and their dream is: to move, travel the world, experience all the wonders the world has to share, to soak up all those wonders, to absorb them, while she learns and grows and as she keeps her positivity and surety of herself - does there remain that one person in a fixed coordinate in the world who desperately wants her to come home? I gladly realized I had to think about where the song wanted to take me, which is about the emotion of love between them. So, there's this, the dream follower can be 3,000 km away from the fixed person today, and 6,000 km away from him tomorrow. Imagine this, the dream follower is today looking at an ancient temple in Tokyo and learns about cherry blossoms even as she admires their delicate beauty. Tomorrow she might be enjoying French cuisine in Montreal while she learns of its ingredients and the technique used to prepare it. But on both those days, the fixed person gets out of bed, goes to work, returns home, and finally gets back into bed so he can do the same thing tomorrow. The differences between them are stunning if you think about it (and you don't have to think hard); the only thing that remains constant between them is the deep abiding emotion of the love they have for one another.
Then there's this, the man who's at the fixed coordinate expresses his emotion of love in how he wants the dream follower to come home. He tells the dream follower how in all the world, there's nothing or no one like her number one fan, the man who remains steadfast back at home. In this way, he's letting her know his love for her desperately desires her warmth and softness by his side. But then the same is true of the dream follower who's a philosopher, artist, and poet, as she confesses her deep abiding love for him when she tells him if he'd come to Mt. Fuji with her, they could scream out their amazing love for one another at the mountain, then go exploring, fall asleep together exhausted in their sleeping bags, and wake up the next morning in time to hear the echo of their previous days love screams.
Points Of Light, you'll always hear me say how life isn't simple, and neither is it simply understood. While I think the same might be said about the emotion of love, you should also know this, I'm not used to contemplating emotions - of any kind. Still, God has taught me a valuable lesson, Love Gives! So, in my thought experiment, I had to consider their love for one another. I choose to believe they love one another, but it seemed neither one wanted to give up their own life for the other person. So, are they both selfish, and do neither one understand what love really is? When the song is over, neither one ends up with the other one. Still, I'm left to believe, and I have to believe this, for both the dream wanderer and the fixed coordinate person, the other will forever remain in their heart in a constant state of the emotion of love. Having said that, I'm sure this emotion of love is more complicated than my pitiful heart can understand.
I'm working on my recent post where I asked for your light to help me. I think it has. More to come.
As Always,
All Love and Peace
Tod w/only one d
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