Love Thursday – Sometimes Difficult

I thought I was ready to write about this. You know, unlike the twenty other times I’ve started drafts and never finished them over the course of the last four months. I got out six-hundred words — six-hundred emotionally exhausting words over four days — and I froze.

I froze at the beginning of the conclusion and for hours I sat staring at a blinking cursor wondering why, when I feel I’ve learned and changed so much as a result of it, I am unable to put that into words. And then, it hit me. Love is sometimes most difficult because it has no end. It is open and free and ever-changing. Love is not static. And by extension the biggest events of our lives, the ones that shake our being to its core, the ones rooted in love; they have no end either. They are not static. They are never over, never end. There is no conclusion.

I started writing this Love Thursday post as a dedication to my little cousin, who on the eve of November 21, 2009, passed away as a result of a car accident. I started writing it as an ode to what love — in its hardest times — is capable of. I started writing to document the closure, the learning, the great revelation that came as a result. I finished realizing that there are many more of those revelations to come, one bleeding into the next, never-ending in their very nature. Perhaps, just perhaps, this is even more profound in personal meaning than what I had originally intended.

Happy Love Thursday, all — even on the difficult ones!

Tagged as: love thursday, photoblog