The search is on.

            The search is on. The search to find someone to share your story with. Many people have a hard time understanding what love is… maybe that is because love isn’t a thing, it isn’t tangible. It’s something felt in the heart, perceived by the mind, and expressed through the soul. I love the book and movie “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” well, in the movie, Oskar is says something that gets me thinking every time, oddly enough, gets me thinking about love. Young Oskar is on the search for people named “Black” and he develops a system… “I started with a simple problem, a key with no lock… and I designed a system I thought fit the problem. I broke everything down in the smallest parts… and tried to think of each person as a number… in a gigantic equation… but it wasn’t working… because people aren’t like numbers. They’re more like letters… and those letters want to become stories… and dad said that stories need to be shared.” Oskar has discovered something that few people understand. People are not numbers… and I’m sure you’re sitting there thinking, “No duh” but hear me out on this… So often times, people see others and just numbers or signs. They fail to recognize them as human beings with a story. Insurance companies, banks, credit card companies are most commonly known for doing this. Sadly, individuals do it to other individuals. They may never realize what they are doing, but when you get down to the bare bones of it, it becomes apparent.

            People use other people. It’s a fact of life. So often time people lay all there burdens on someone else and leave them like that… I know this for fact since I’ve dealt with this. Finding someone who shares the weight of the load can be a live saver, literally. If you keep around friends who bury you in their pain, but do nothing to help you with yours, I’m sorry but they aren’t really your friends. So many issues today could be solved by sitting and listening to each other… I know I’m preaching to the chorus but really people? How difficult is it to help someone when they are in need? People are letters that make up a story, take time out to listen to someone’s story, because guess what… you may just fall in love with them. People have vibrant, colorful, pained souls. We all got to where we are by a series of great or horrible events. We all have things weighing us down, they make us drag our feet. We look around and sometimes see people lapping us, making fun and laughing at us. People feel beaten and battered, they come home and lay there in defeat. These broken souls walk by us every day, maybe you have a broken soul. Well today we can change that. “We are broken, we are bleeding, but we love. Take our broken mangled hearts, press them together that’s who we are. Two broken beaten souls, when put together make us whole.” That is a short poem I wrote for the girl I really care about. She and I are very close, we can feel each other’s pain, we rejoice in each other’s triumphs. We took the time to listen to each other. I opened up to her days after meeting her, I felt safe with her, I saw something in her I hadn’t seen in years… peace. My mind was at rest when I talked to her, when I looked into her eyes, I felt confident she’d help me. She has. Really, looking at it, it must be love. No other way to put it. When you meet someone who listens to your story, shares with you theirs, then together you work to be strong. That is Love.

            Love doesn’t always have to be with a relationship though, Love can be with your best friend, your roommate… There is more to Love than being together for life. Love is really like an invisible force, it can drive people to do crazy things, but it can drive people to sanity as well. With a network Love and support, anything is possible. So please, take the time out of your day, get out of your comfort zone, and listen to someone’s story. Anything could happen.

            This really has been a long winded way of saying something that has been simply put by the lovely internet. “Be kinder than necessary, everyone is fighting some kind of battle.” So, be kind, listen, and feel. Don’t be afraid to go out and listen to what people have to say, listen to their stories, learn. That is all for now, hope you enjoyed, sorry for the rambling….