take one chance.

Sometimes you just have to take a chance. Maybe its a situation you’re struggling with, a decision you need to make. Maybe its a person who needs you. Maybe it something bigger than that, a small step that will lead to another small step, all making up a big step.

We studied love tonight. What love looks like in our culture, what it can be confused with, what it actually is. For a lot of people, love is a huge chance, a big step. Sharing feelings, taking that risk is the scariest possible scenario. So many times love is seen as things. As “will they give it back?” As some unattainable perfect construct that only the luckiest of lucky people ever find.

Recently, really recently, I started to realize that I love people. I’m not saying I love hanging out with people, or that people do stuff that I always love, or even that I feel really loving towards people all the time. But I am saying that I love people. I love their crap, I love their resilience, i love their feelings, i love their pain, i love their vulnerability, i love their humor, i love their laughter, i love their tears, i love their openness, i love their walls, i love their opinions, their insight, their passion and dislikes. I want to know people. I want to hear them. I want to care for them. i want to love people.

I don’t know where you are, what you’re doing, how you’re journeying….but I do know this. love? we all need it. we all crave it. maybe you can’t even put your finger on what you’re searching for, maybe you feel lonely, maybe you’re driven to succeed, maybe you want all the newest toys, or you have to be the best at what you do. maybe you want someone to pay attention to you, you need someone to talk to, you are longing for something to touch your soul. but doesn’t it all boil down to love?

too many people are in situations they think are love, but aren’t. and too many people are so wounded they can’t recognize love standing in front of them. so when you encounter these people in your day, give them a smile, say something nice, listen to their story. who knows? Could be you on the receiving end of their love when you didn’t even know you needed it.

favorites.

“we’ll get it right again, we’ll come back to life again, we won’t say another goodbye again, you live forever with me, someday, someday we’ll be together, someday, someday, we’ll be together”

“face the fear and not feel scared
wild horses, i want to be like you
throwing caution to the wind, i’ll run free too
wish i could recklessly love like i’m longing to
i want to run with the wild horses, run with the wild horses”

“fate has lead you through it, you do what you have to do
I have the sense to recognize but I don’t know how to let you go
every moment marked with apparitions of your soul
i’m ever swiftly moving, trying to escape this desire
the yearning to be near you, I do what I have to do“

“i know, i know, i know its easier to let go
but i will learn to breathe this ugliness you see
so we can both be there, and we can both share the dark
and in our honesty, together we will rise
out of our night minds, and into the light at the end of the fight…”

“and if i could hold on through the tears and the laughter, would it be beautiful or just a beautiful disaster?”

“Is he not strong enough?
Is he not pure enough to break me, pour me out and start again?
is he not brave enough to take one chance with me?
please can i have one chance to start again?”

“yeah its been good, getting to know me more”

“how long, how long, how long will we take to come undone?
if you know the answer tell me now and I’ll write up a calendar for our countdown
cause what if what we see is all, is all we’ve got?
Say you’ve kept some fire aside to set light to me some surprising night
and you say you’ve locked some fire away  to set light to me some surprising day.
to me surprising day, any day now…”

“some things are the way they are, and words just can’t explain
i never saw blue like that before, across the sky
around the world, you’ve given me all you have and more
and no one else has ever shown me how to see the world the way i see it now
oh, i…i never saw blue like that before…
it feels like now, it feels always, and it feels like coming home”