#great love

[oneinchbarrier]

#marina abramovic #the artist is present #Frank Uwe Laysiepen #marina and ulay #great love

[thinkingimages]

Yayoi Kusama & Harrie Verstappen - Endless Love

#Yayoi Kusama & Harrie Verstappen #Endless Love #Yayoi Kusama #Harrie Verstappen #Love #Great Love #🤍

[07-induraj]

On my way to find love

I'm a tourist of love,

You can say i'm looking for my type.

I'm on my way to find love,

My real love, my true love or my great love.

They say comfort is first step of love,

I'm searching for someone,

With loving arms

Which will hold me in hardship.

Trust comes second,

I'm looking for someone,

Who'll listen to me and help me when i'm stuck

Not the one who nods to me even when i'm totally wrong.

My happiness comes third

I'm searching for a soul,

Which can differ between my fake smile & real smile

Who can stay happy with me & respect my priorities.

This reminds me, respect comes next,

I'm looking for someone,

Who can respect my thoughtsz, my priorities, etc..

Along with his own.

Most important the bond,

I'm searching for someone,

Who is satisfied with as much I give him,

And despite that makes me feel loved every-second.

I know there's more to look & search for,

But what I know for sure is that my way of finding my love,

Ain't gonna be easy, simple or like cherry on the top

Its gonna hurt me, teach me, break me

But i'm ready, or love ain't for me..

Written by 07-induraj

#my poem #original poem #poets on tumblr #poemsbyme #love poetry #love #finding love #tourist of love #poems #love is written in the stars #real love #true love #great love #finding love ain't easy #twcpoetry

[oldbutnotyetwise]

Great Love

     I will admit that I am not one for light conversation. I don’t really like to talk about the weather, and if you want to talk about sports or your favourite reality show then I am definitely the wrong person.  However if you want to talk about life, love, adventures or about amazing people that you know (not in a gossipy kind of way) then I would be very happy to sit down and chat.

     Sometimes when I am in one of those conversations with someone, I will look at them square in the eye and ask “How many truly happy couples do you know?”  When I ask that question I am asking about couples who are  really madly in love, not couples who tolerate each other, or couples who have settled for each other, or couples who are together for appearances, or couples just waiting until the kids leave the house so they can part ways.  And just because someone has been married a long time, it doesn’t mean that they are happy.  I mean the couples who are still deeply in love, who would pick each other again if given the chance to do it all over again. 

     You would think that people would be able to list of a large number of happy couples that they know, but almost always the person I ask can’t think of any, or maybe they can only think of one or two.  Isn’t that kind of sad?  Shouldn’t we struggle to list the unhappy couples and have a long list of happy couples?  Why is that, and has it always been that way or is this more of a recent phenomenon?  Has Hollywood given us all unrealistic expectations?

     I left my second marriage after a decade of unhappiness in a twenty year marriage.  Yes perhaps that makes me a quitter and maybe you will lose some respect for me in knowing that.  What I decided was that life was an incredible gift and I didn’t want to waste it being unhappy for whatever time that I had left.  Now I will qualify this with another sad fact, as unhappy as I was I know others who were more unhappy and chose to stay in their marriages.  Did I do the right thing, did they do the right thing?  I don’t know that there is an answer to that, maybe we both did our own right thing.  All I know is that I would not have found the happiness that I did had I not left.  As hard as it was I know in my heart that I did the right thing.

     Maybe in the past the majority of the marriages have been more about two people tolerating each other while trying to raise a family and maintain a home.  I wonder how many Mail Order Annies got off the train and met the man of their dreams?  Even now there are still arranged marriages in some cultures, how many of them end up in wedded bliss?  Or maybe the expectations in these examples are just lower.  

     When I think of my parents, and even my grandparents, the words “great love” don’t come to mind when I think of their relationships.  It’s not that they were unhappy, I truly feel it was more that they just lived in a state of tolerating each other.  I knew very early on that I wanted more, I guess I wanted the fairy tale.

     Marriage and relationships are hard, I say this as a voice of experience and readily admit my rather checkered past in this area leaves me highly unqualified to offer either criticism or advice.  None the less I will offer my ponderances on the subject for you to dismiss or perhaps ponder yourself.

     I thought I might share with you some of the couples who I know of, or have known who I think of as those enviable couples who are or were very deeply and madly in love.  Having said that, this is my impression from the outside, only they truly know how happy they are.

     I met John and Aida back in the late eighties.  What struck me about John was how much he loved Aida.  Here was a couple that got married when they were both teenagers, which let’s acknowledge is normally a recipe for disaster, but all those years later there was no doubt he adored her even when I met him in his fifties.  Whenever he spoke of Aida his voice would change, his face would light up with a smile and he had nothing but kind loving words for her.  Here it is thirty or thirty-five years later and I still can clearly recall their love story.  Sadly Cancer took John far too early and I remember sitting there after his funeral looking at Aida wondering how she could possibly go on after losing what appeared to me to be the love of her life.  In the movie Bridges of Madison County Robert Kincaid says to Francesca about their love, “This kind of certainty comes but once in a lifetime” Is that true?  Or maybe it might never come along in a life, or maybe lighting can strike twice and some lucky soul might have more than one great love in their life.

     I have some very dear friends that we visited and stayed with a while back.  Larry and Neil have been together for longer than I have known them which is over thirty-five years.  I attended their wedding when they were finally able to marry legally.  To me they have always been this incredible couple.  Recently I sat and watched Larry tend to Neil who is now in his mid eighties.  I was touched by the patient, gentle, tender loving way that he tended to Neil’s needs.  These are two men who survived some turbulent times when being Gay could get you seriously hurt or killed.  They both have stood by each other through some life threatening illnesses and injuries.  Knowing them, seeing them with each other and watching them love each other always warmed my heart.

     A dear friend of mine lost her mother twice.  First to dementia and then to death.  What touched my heart was the way my friend’s father attended the nursing home for several hours every day to visit and to feed his wife dinner.  Even though most days she didn’t recognize him, he never lost his love for her.

     I had a another coworker and friend who married his childhood sweetheart that he met in grade three or four.  Now truth be told I found them to be a bit of an odd couple, but what I noticed was that all their oddness seemed to fit together like a jigsaw puzzle.  My friend was stolen away by cancer, and it still breaks my heart to see his wife struggle in the aftermath, the foundation of her life now gone.  She is lost, a sailboat without it’s rudder lost at sea.

     Not everyone is lucky enough to have a “great love” in their life, I dare say most don’t.  A dear friend had a great love, but then lost her husband to a terminal illness.  I know the grief of losing someone that you love, I also know the grief of losing a “great love”, it is like losing your whole world.  Recently when we were speaking she said that at least she got to have one “great love” once in her life.  I find this both incredibly happy, and incredibly sad at the same time.

     I would like to share a quote with you now.  I’m sure in hearing it you will think it is a nice quote.  However unless you have lived or are living it I would respectfully suggest that you won’t really get the true meaning and depth of it.  It is by a Rabbi and author Steve Leder whose writings I find to be quite profound.

     “To love and care for someone who is whole is one thing.  To love and care for a person when he or she is broken, weak, and afraid is quite another.  That is the deepest kind of love; a love discovered only through vulnerability and pain.”

     I know the kind of love described in that quote, and that my friends makes me a very lucky man.  Like a phoenix who rises from the ashes I somehow managed to save my “great love”, my best love for last.  It is easy for me to understand why I love Robin like I do, what I don’t understand is why Robin loves me like she does.  When I met Robin I felt that we both were getting a good deal in being with each other.  Our love was easy, it was good, our future was full of great and endless possibilities.  Now our future is full of limitations, and the list of limitations just continues to grow, often daily.  Life is hard and I am a broken shell of who I once was, and to be honest I struggle to understand how this mess of a person that I have become is in any way loveable.  Yet each and very day I am shown the kind of love others can only dream of.  I don’t think Robin loves me, I know that she loves me.  I don’t understand it, and I can’t even begin to try to explain it, but I do know I have never been so well loved.  Loved more than I ever thought was possible.  Yes I am lucky in love even as the Grim Reaper is chasing me down the street and constantly gaining ground.

     If I could have a wish for you my dear reader, I would wish for you a “great love”.  Somehow I don’t think life has been fully lived without one, in some ways it is what makes us feel truly alive, says the dying man.

     Have you ever had a “great love”?  Maybe this is an easier question.  How many couples do you know who appear to have a “great love”?     

#great love #true love #happy couples

[travelersrest]

🪽🩷🪽

#foundation #go hard for us #i believe in us #lion hearts #classy life #great love #u are amazing #love

[mjrimando]

#godisgood #trending #god #jesus #faith #christians #music #jesusislord #worshipsongs #christian faith #women of faith #great love #hopeful #holy spirit #fyp foryou #fyp #highlight #followers #Instagram

[fieriframes]

[Where there is great love, there are always miracles.]

#s03e11 where the locals go #guy fieri #guyfieri #diners drive-ins and dives #great love #miracles

[obfuscxte]

#lit #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #spilled poems #spilled poetry #poets on tumblr #poems on tumblr #writers on tumblr #words and wisdom #love #longing #feelings #unforgettable love #romance #closure #memories #great love #reminisce #personal #life #literature #writing to survive

[melisssg99]

I'm going to marry him someday ♡

#personal #cute #feminine #cottagecore #traditional #femininity #love #trad femininity #egalitarian #complementarism #idk #i love him #true love #great love #homemaker #inclusive homemaking

[sadgirlnp]

I want to believe this, they say you have 3 great loves of your life, and I hope all 3 are different versions of you in this lifetime.

#poetry #love poem #great love

[oneinchbarrier]

#marina and ulay #marina abramovic #Frank Uwe Laysiepen #ulay #great love

[meinepoesiemeinegedanken]

Schau, wie klein wir sind, wenn du in den Himmel schaust.

Und trotzdem sind wir wichtig und verbunden und wunderschön und am Ende noch größer als diese Unendlichkeit, noch schöner als alles andere in dieser Welt.

#liebe #ich liebe dich #liebespoesie #liebesgedanken #große liebe #liebessprüche #liebestext #Poesie #text #Gedanken #klein #unendlich #Unendlichkeit #unendliche Liebe #kreatives schreiben #love #i love u #great love #love quotes #love poem #love letters #love thoughts #love poetry #poetry #love text #thoughts #little #big #infinity #creative writing

[poligraf]

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love... the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

Saint Teresa of Calcutta

#quote #quotes #life quotes #wisdom #mother teresa #greatness #great things #love #great love

[positieveonrust]

” . . . a place of my own to live in, with a woman of my own and perhaps a child of my own. There’s nothing extraordinary about wanting such things. . . .”

So wrote Nelson Algren to Simone de Beauvoir when he feared that their love affair was, in her words, “doomed to come to an end, and soon.” Neither wanted it to die. Both had plunged madly and sexually in love on her first trip to America in 1947. Their tragedy was that they chose work, and their respective cities over love.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-oct-18-bk-33545-story.html

#simone de beauvoir #nelson algren #a walk on the wild side #let no man write my epitaph #chicago #paris #literature #great love

[zelengph]

My safe Skies

NASA TAMANG TAO NA BA ANG LAHAT???

Kasi ako nasa tamang tao na :) Hi .. It's me again Just want to share yung mga masasayang moments na nangyari sakin this past few days .. One of the best feeling is when you're tired the whole day and then you started talking to that certain person in the evening that makes you feel perfectly fine in an instant that person is your rest, more like your home , yung tipong kahit hanggang bahay kausap mo siya , lagi ka niyang pinapasaya magdamag kayong magkasa usap kahit video call lang . My time na nakatitig lang ako sakaniya and then ngingiti ako at marerealize na ang swerte ko kasi dati wish ko lang kay lord na sana makakita ako ng lalaking ittrato akong maayos ngayon ang ibinigay niya sakin sobra pa. Bigla ko naaalala kung pano ako itrato ng last relationship ko to the point onti - onti na nawawala ang respeto ko sa sarili ko , dati nililimos ko yung love na gustong ibigay sakin ng lalaking gusto pero ngayon nakukuha ko na never ako nagdoubt sa kaniya araw araw matutulog akong nakangiti then gigisng ng nakangiti pa din , yung time na nililimos ko sa maling tao before nabibigay na sakin ng tamang tao ngayon. Get a man who has a plans and thinks about future. Hindi yung puro kabastusan at papogi lang ang alam , Get a man na hindi puro small talks lang like " Kumain ka na ba? " " Gawa mo ? " but choose a man who talks about his habits and what he wants for the future. A man who listens to you, support your vision, see you win , and a man who will learn for you , Choose a partner na magbibigay sayo peace of mind and happiness, not stress and consistent lies, yung hindi man ikaw ang top priority pero binibigyan ka ng oras. Above all yung marunong makuntento sa isa, not the one who has eyes for very girls, At tsaka isa sa mga basic rule dyan wag magmahal ng taong kailangan pang bantayan para lang hindi ka lokohin, know your worth.

In a world of full of chaos and change, where everything seems so strange, One things remains constant and true, My love and devotion to this person, Through the highs and lows, The joys and the sorrows I'll choose him always today, tomorrow and all days, in his arms i find my peace a love that will never cease, I'll choose him always until the end of my days. Out of all people i have met in my life, There's somethings special about him that sets him apart from the rest. I can't quiet put my finger on it, But there's a certain quality in his personality that is so refreshing and unique, When I'm with him, I feel like i can be myself without any pretenses or mask. his authenticity and genuine nature have bee a breath of fresh air in my life and i'm so grateful to have him in it.

Hi love , Thank you for everything you've done for me. I appreciate it all. You don't have to doubt your actions, You're doing great and I know that you've been doing all the best you can just to provide the love and support that i deserve. I don't know how i can return it but i will do my very best to do every thing I should do. You're worth it. Iloveyou .

To my love i hope you don't change , the nights we talk, The days we're together, You don't know how much you make me happy. When you leave me, The smile in my eyes may also disappears, So thank you for treating me right. Thank you for always reminding me how i deserve all the good things in life, Thank you for being a good listener and for choosing to stay despite of my flaws

again, ILOVEYOU :)

You're my safe skies

#love #great love

[mirainawen]

when flyleaf said “i’m facing what you won’t tonight. the dawn is breaking, my body’s shaking” i was never the same

#flyleaf #great love #someone: u...u okay? #me: *becomes absolutely incomprehensible*