What About Love
2008

“ I looked for a while and gave up, and decided to cling to what I more or less had…”
That’s a quote from a woman talking to me about her current husband, who she just had a baby with, and it just made me sad. When you marry someone, and have kids with them, it’s typically under the assumption that you love one another. That you’re dedicated to one another, and want to spend the rest of your life with them. Not that you looked elsewhere, couldn’t find anything better, and so you decided to settle.
I know love is a fickle thing. I know it has ups and downs, it can hurt multiple people. It can be confusing and rarely does it ever make sense in fact. It’s one of the strongest emotions out there, if not THE strongest. Movies are made about it, books are written, and songs are sung. It makes people do crazy things that others would never even dream of doing, and most of all it makes us ask, WHY.
Being in love is wonderful. The world turns just for you. I’m a firm believer that even a perfect relationship has issues. I use the term perfect loosely as there’s really no such thing, but it could be perfect to you, perfect for you. Even with those lumps and bumps that make it human. Without arguments how else would we even grasp that we’re human. Capable of error.
Not sure why I’m rambling about this today, and it doesn’t even make much sense, but it’s on my mind none the less. When have I ever made sense anyhow. I just wonder why with so many other issues out there, people would choose to settle in one of the few things they have complete control over. Unless of course your culture doesn’t allow you to choose your own mate or some such..
Eh, that’s enough ranting..




