Discussion»Statements»Rosie's Corner» Love based on just one thing (Like sex f'r instance) isn't really love is it? Love is a compendium of many things or should be.True?
I love Ari because he's my best friend. He's the one who will be first to challenge me when I make a mistake, and help me see it if I can't. He's willing and able to work on overcoming problems arising from differences or misunderstandings. He can often guess my moods and reactions. He understands me pretty well most of the time, certainly far better than anyone else. I can trust him in most things. It makes life easier that we have always shared similar values, beliefs, and tastes. His good qualities: kind, honest, gentle, caring, expressive, generous, musical, and loves life. He is very out-going, a great networker, which is a good foil for my introverted and stay-at-home preferences. We can rely on each other to be there and help when needed, and to share, appreciate and savour the good. We manage, sometimes clumsily, to mostly make life better for one another. There is a depth of affection and fondness between us that has grown imperceptibly over the years. To see his face in a crowd is somehow the most welcome sight in the scene.
There is a very fine testament to what love is m'dear. Thoughtful, articulate and meaningful for which I thank you. D'ya know what's so very sad? You are the ONLY person who responded to it. The ONLY ONE. How sad that folks out there are in that predicament. So sad. Lucky you and so is Ari. I bet you laugh every day and have fun every day as well. Also sad is that so many folks take things/people for granted. They're so busy wanting and needing and coveting and complaining and moaning and groaning and kvetching about what they DON'T HAVE they are oblivious/blind to what they do. They don't take time to be grateful/appreciative.until it's gone and then wow! Phony comes out in carloads and they wax poetic about what they had when they never gave it a thought to it WHILE they had it! :(
Benedict Arnold 