Shining Thru

What creates a family?  I really don’t think that it is the blood that people share.  You can share the same blood as someone and not want anything to do with them, or maybe not even know that you are related, maybe never have even met.  I think that family is created between people who love and care about each other.  If it’s some friends or maybe people who took care of you and that you lived with for whatever reason.  Maybe it’s just a group of people who were thrown together in some unusual circumstances.  The blood running through the veins of a person does not create the person that they are, any more than it creates the person’s family or the group that they belong with.  Sometimes you simply fit with another person and they become your family.  You love and care about each other, support each other through the good and the hard times.

I feel bad for the people that constantly push away the people who simply want to love them.  Want to be there for them and give them a place to belong.  I think that some people are so afraid of being rejected or hurt if they let people be close enough to consider them family that they would rather just keep everyone at arms length and not give them the chance to get close enough to hurt them.  Sadly, sometimes people do get hurt by the people who they love the most, but without risking it, you may never know the love of a family.

Are secrets good things or bad?  Do they have to be one or the other?  Should people keep things just for themselves?  Is it possible to have secrets that you don’t even realize that you have?

What about things that you haven’t had time to puzzle out for yourself and therefore simply can’t share them with anyone?  If people hate surprises, should you try and force them onto them just because you like to see people surprised?

Secrets are kept every day.  It’s really nice when you know that you have someone you can tell all of your secrets to and still be loved for who you are, no matter how deviant or taboo the secrets may be.  It’s nice to know that at least one person will always love you no matter what.  It’s also nice to know that when you really love a person you can accept all of that person….all of the secrets, all of the things that make them unique.  It’s nice to be loved.  But what happens when that love is the secret that you have to keep from others…what happens when that love isn’t out in the open for everyone to see.  If you don’t know what will happen with the amazing love that fills you with a passion that wont fade.

Everyone has secrets from someone….even if it’s just from the people that you work with because you never know how they would react or how long you would have a job if you showed them who you truly are.  All that you can hope for is for the people that you love and who love you to always accept you and all of your secrets, openly and proudly.  No conditions…just love.

It’s nice when you realize that the person you love really does love you for exactly who you are.  It’s nice to know that you are not expected to change, that it’s ok to be who you are.  Even the things that you fear would drive someone away are simply accepted by someone who truly loves you.  It’s so great to know that you don’t  have to that you can be completely honest and that the honesty hasn’t driven the person away….they are still there, still looking in your eyes lovingly and you know that they love you as much as you love them…that you are not alone, not drowning in this powerful emotion that you can’t choose to have or not have…it simply is or is not. 

It’s nice to know that although there is a lot that goes wrong in life or at least not the way you expect things to go…it is a lot easier knowing that you are loved and that your love is accepted with an open heart and returned.  It’s just nice to know that someone cares.  Nice to know that sometimes there really is a perfect fit and that life keeps on going as long as you keep on living and don’t give up.

The passion bursts forth

Not knowing where it built

Not knowing how it came to be

Only knowing that it’s amazing

That there could never be a love so strong as this one

Knowing that the love will last forever if we let it

Love sneaking up into a mounting passion

No longer able to contain what you didn’t even realize was there

Flying high on a cloud of loving hot passion

In a perfect world for that short time

No worries or concerns

Only love, passion, and desire

Only the act of two becoming one in a loving embrace

Soft and subtle, building and building

Love and Passion Explode into perfect peacefulness.

What is romance and where can you find it?  Can it be in a song, book, letter?  What about a smile, wink, look?  A touch, a date, a dinner?  A flower, a gift, wine?  What makes something romantic?

Why is it that it seems like one thing could be one of the most romantic things you can think of and absolutely repulse another person or at least make them role their eyes and wish their way out of the conversation or worse the experience if your thoughts are already taking action…..Why is it that one thing might work with one person…maybe you truly enjoyed it, but then tried with someone else, and it is just no use…just wont work.  Why are some things amazing with one person and then boring, something you might even resent with someone else?

I think it’s interesting to see how much the idea of romance has changed, not only on a personal level, but also as a society.  I know I am a romantic at heart.  I love things with personal meaning, I love a lot of the classic ideas of romance…however, I have found that with the right person, almost anything can melt my heart and give me that feeling of romance.

What is family?  I have never thought of my family as just blood relations….but what makes a family?  Does it just take a caring heart…I think it’s more than that.  I think it has to be someone who loves you and cares about you…but more than that they have to be willing to stand by you and be there for you even in the toughest of times….someone who wont walk away because it got hard or they disagreed with a decision that you make.  Blood doesn’t make a family, heart of a person willing to give and sacrifice for another person makes a family….

On that same note, I’m not sure that family requires unconditional love …. or that unconditional is even available to most people.  It’s an interesting concept….LOVE…what is it that attracts some people together for a romantic relationship, parental relationship, or some other kind of family relations.

Bliss full reunion with your arms

Loving touch and gentle kiss

Passion explodes as the day goes on

Night time comes to loving embrace

Love and trust reassured in your eyes

Eyes so bright with love and life

The soul pouring forth

Delight and joy spilling forth as we unite

Together there is happiness

Only joy and laughter and love

Take another look

But don’t look back

No regrets but fond memories

The time spent in the blissfulness of love

Look around the corner, not able to see around the bend

Looking for clarity but only able to replay the confusion

Knowing that the love is powerful

It will always be there, no matter what angle it’s viewed

Powerful and always there

The joy when I hear your voice

The happiness and peace that comes with your touch

Not wanting it to disappear into the foggy complications of life

Not wanting to give it up, we go on

Hand in hand, squeeze tight and let me know you’re there

Never alone, our love grows and grows

In the comfort of knowing that you care

We’re here and our love is here to stay.

The comfort and love from the one you’re meant to be with

Can do more for you than anything else in the world

True love can endure and carry on through the toughest of times

No matter what happens between you, you’re always there together

Always there for each other, no matter what needs to be done

Enduring loving that lasts through the sunshine and the storms

In one loving touch, word or act, everything can come back together

The love is the glue and bond between you two

The love and trust that is always there, is the security that you have

Even without words or the gentle touch you have that love and trust

The search for security has ended in the realization that love is forever.

Like the waves gentle pulse along the shore

Acceptance comes in calm gentle waves

Acceptance,  as the calm and the peace come with it

Knowing that what will be, will be, knowing that I’m not in control

Knowing that love will last

Love and hope, admiration and trust

Knowing that the caring love is still in the two hearts

Peace and Joy are the hope, it’s what brings on the waves of acceptance

Love and trust will bring on the sparkles of the water

As the sun sets on another day I hear the waves’ gentleness

As I lay down I can feel my heart beat soften and relax

Acceptance throughout my body, as I think of you

The joy and peace found in your love

Knowing that the calm voice of peace is close at hand

Knowing that although the heart strains, Love holds it together.