Bullshit

Sometimes I think that Facebook's main purpose it to expose us to crap that will piss us off.  Like this quote that I saw on Facebook tonight:


"The truth is that the more intimately you know someone, the more clearly you’ll see their flaws. That’s just the way it is. This is why marriages fail, why children are abandoned, why friendships don’t last. You might think you love someone until you see the way they act when they’re out of money or under pressure or hungry, for goodness’ sake. Love is something different. Love is choosing to serve someone and be with someone in spite of their filthy heart. Love is patient and kind, love is deliberate. Love is hard. Love is pain and sacrifice, it’s seeing the darkness in another person and defying the impulse to jump ship."



Seriously?  I don't think so.  I agree that love is patient, kind and deliberate, but I've know real love and it was never hard. Love doesn't mean not having or recognizing each others' weaknesses. Love means that dispite our weaknesses we treat each other with kindness and forgiveness. Love should never be pain or sacrifice. True love, for me, was perfect. The only thing painful about it was watching him die - and because I loved him so, there was nowhere else I would have been.

I have more love in me, and I believe that I can experience true love again.  And I won't accept that that means accepting pain and sacrifice.  It means having the grace to treat another lovingly even in difficult times and circumstance.  If it feels "hard" to love, you may be doing it wrong.