Beyond love
I am a dreamer. It’s true-I find it hard to give up on things that are important to me. Having said that, the past few months have been really emotionally challenging for me for many reasons. I haven’t blogged; I haven’t known what to blog about when there are so many things troubling me. Some things I understand, some I don’t.
Anyway, here I am. And I’ve been thinking. A lot.
I read a recent CNN article about this man, Munoz, who, for the past couple of decades, has been spending more than half of his $700 salary to feed the hungry and the homeless on the streets of New York. We are all (hopefully) charitable in some manner through our lives. This man though, and his story touched me. To think and care about complete strangers in this manner-evening after evening, day after day? Pretty incredible.
I am fortunate. I have loving exceptional parents, who have cared and provided for me everything I wished for growing up. I am only just beginning to realize how monumental a task parenting is, as I’m seeing a couple of my friends starting to embark on it. I probably have never thanked them enough for doing everything they did, in whatever manner they did, because I attribute a lot of what I am today, to them.
Love is a strange thing though. I know my parents don’t agree with me right now, but no matter what, I just cannot find the words to blame them for how they feel. I understand, but do they? Maybe they do, and they simply don’t like it. Yes, love is remarkable. It is unending, and we have this ability, as humans, to display our affection, to many people, in many different ways.
On that note, let me share this with you; I’m not usually one for quotes, but this I found to ring very true:
“The big difference between people is not between the rich and the poor, the good and the evil. The biggest of all differences between people is those who have had pleasure in love and those who haven’t.”
-Paul Newman (as Chance Wayne in “Sweet Bird of Youth”)
What good are the riches of the world if there is nothing worth living for? We work hard all our lives, to get a good job, a good pay, and we hope, that will help us lead ‘the good life’. Yes, money is necessary, but not beyond the necessity of love.
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