"...something from James Dillet Freeman..."

...May you always need one another
not so much to fill your emptiness
as to help you to know your fullness.
A mountain needs a valley to be complete; the valley does not make
the mountain less, but more; and the valley is more a valley because
it has a mountain towering over it.

May you need one another, but not out of weakness.
May you want one another, but not out of lack.
May you entice one another, but not compel one another.
May you embrace one another, but not out encircle one another.
May you succeed in all important ways with one another,
and not fail in the little graces.
May you look for things to praise, often say, "I love you!"
and take no notice of small faults.

If you have quarrels that push you apart,
may both of you hope to have
good sense enough to take the first step back.

May you enter into the mystery which is
the awareness of one another's
presence - no more physical than spiritual,
warm and near when you are
side by side, and warm and near when
you are in separate rooms or even distant cities.
May you have happiness,
and may you find it making one another happy.
May you have love, and may you find it loving one another.

I've built my world around you....

WOOAAH!!!

"..I have already posted this one before but I like to post this one again for this Valentine's Day..."

HOW DO YOU KNOW?

I found at least one sure answer to the question "How do you know it's love?" You know when the everyday things surrounding you – the leaves, the shade of light in the sky, a bowl of strawberries-suddenly shimmer with king of unreality. You know when the tiny details about another person, ones that are insignificant to most people, seem fascinating and incredible to you. One groom told me he loved everything about his wife, from her handwriting to the way she scratched on their apartment door like a cat when she came home. One bride said she fell in love her fiance because "one night", a moth was flying around a light bulb, and he caught it and let it out the window. I said: "That's it. He's the guy."

You also know it's love when you can't stop talking to each other. Almost every couple I've ever interviewed said that on their first or second date, they talked for hours and hours. For some, falling in love is like walking into a soundproof confessional booth, a place where you can tell all. I can't tell you how many women have told me they knew they were in love because they forgot to wear make up around their boyfriend. Or because they felt at ease hanging around him in flannel pajamas. There's some modern truth to Cinderella's tale - it's love when you're incredibly comfortable, when the shoe fits perfectly.

Finally, I think you're in love if you can make each other laugh at the very worst times. As someone once told me, 90% of being in love is making each other's lives funnier and easier, all the way to the deathbed.

I've interviewed many people who were down on their luck in every way - a ballerina with chronic problems, a physicist who had been on 112 blind dates, a clarinet player who was a single dad and could barely pay rent. But love, when they found it, brought humor, candlelight, home-cooked meals, fun, adventure, poetry and long conversations in their lives.

When people ask me where to find love, I tell a story about one of my first job interviews. He gave me some advice I will never forget. He said: "Go out into the world. Work hard and concentrate on what you love to do, writing. If you become good, we will find you." That's
why I always tell people looking for love to wait for that "I won the lottery" feeling - wait, wait, wait! Don't read articles about how to trap, seduce or hypnotize a mate. Don't worry about your lipstick or your height, because it is not going to matter. Just live your life well, takecare of yourself, and don't mope too much. Love will find you.

With each story I hear, I have proof that love, optimism, guts, grace, perfect partners and good luck do, in fact, exist. Love in my opinion is not a fantasy, not the stuff of romance novels or fairy tales. It's a gritty and real as the subway, it comes around just as regularly, and as long as you can stick it out on the platform, you won't miss it....

"...For valentines, may all of you find a love that
makes you happy and makes you see the truth..."

What a Game huh? To those who missed it...well...

I'm so sorry I can't be perfect