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Erica Jong once wrote, "Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
A healthy relationship certainly is that about which poets have written through the ages of time; it is that for which wars have been fought, lives have been sacrificed, and a world has been altered.
But this sort of intimacy includes risking everything.
It means risking being known. It means taking the risk to share one's heart. It means being vulnerable.
It is not always easy to risk in this way. There is certainly nothing more scary than being known... truly known, because it means opening our very soul to hurt, pain, and rejection.
It is also the only way to experience the depth of love possible in the human.
3 comments:
It hurts.. but it's worth it. :)
Ahhh... yes. Love is not always easy is it. :-)
This couldn't be more true. I have lost alot of myself and figured that I would never get back in the game and ante up ever again. Then I met someone special and realized that exactly what it says above is true... to get the huge reward and payoff in the form of contentment life can offer- You have to be willing to risk it all! =)
Love doesn't always hurt, you don't have to lose in the game of love... don't let your mind be preset to expect the worst because you'll just be selling your relationship short of it's true potential.
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