How much?
July 6, 2008 at 11:46 pm (interior, side trips)
Tags: cost of it all
How much do you love? What do you sacrifice to have it?
How much do you lust? What ends do you reach to satisfy it?
I think thee are things that are free-sunshine, air, water in a stream, sincere smiles from strangers.
Everything else has a cost, or at least a requirement. Love calls to love, good to good.
Be cruel to a parent or a child, and even that love will become twisted and bitter, rotted at the roots.
Why do people think sex is free? There is always some type of exchange-to make both parties satisfied. Not monetary but other things. Tenderness, time, caring. Truth and or honesty.
Even God expects us to be nice to others, because He loves us. (Or She, depending on your inner world. )
So why do humans expect a cost-free exchange? Why d we scoff at women for wanting material things for the use of their bodies, when it was quite common all over the world to berate the one who gave her virginity away or let herself be used?
I have mentioned before that men do not look kindly to their women having affairs. One of the 1st responses is always, ” I take care of you and look how you repay me!”. Why does that come to mind so soon?
Because of the costs. Time, sweat, money go into relationships.
You do not have to be guilty. Othello, anyone? But no matter, it is the thought that counts.
What does living and loving cost you? Do you value what is common, or do you seek the exclusive?
How much do you yearn? Have you mastered it? Or will it always be your master?