by Dave Shruga

Created on: July 05, 2010

Love is like food and air. We all need it. We all crave it when it is not present. And we hurt when it is lost. Especialy when the course of time between two people had expired and they must go forward to find it again. Love is a drug that is more addiciting than any thing we as humankind had created or fallen upon to consume. We all are addicts for its high and elation, but dread the fall down when it is over.

Surrender and trust. These two major factors are the seed of love between persons in a relationship starting as friends to lovers to a pair bond to life long partners. First we must find the trust to lower our guard to our significant other. When we can trust someone, we will let the mask fall aside so they can see who we are. They will hear us as we snore, snort as we laugh, or how scary we are when we wake up in the morning. When we can trust someone the second factor will open, surrender. When we surrender to love we can allow the heart to open and accept love openly and freely. Sadly, most of us will never find this point due to our fears of hurt from the past, and lack of faith to bare your chest to someone and give them what you cherish most, your heart.

As in the opening segment, love is a drug that all of us have been addicted to at some point. Some of us had become a serial dater to keep on that rush and never to feel the nasty sting when it leaves. Love must hurt so we can cherish it when God allows it to come to us when we are ready to take the lesson to be provided. When things come to us easy, or just given to us we will over see it and take it for granted. Love is like a razor, it keeps you on the edge. It can give you endless pleasure, or the most grave pain. This is the balance we need to keep when we have it.

God had designed love to hurt. When you fall for someone and there is a trigger you encounter like a scent, a song, or a feel of an article of clothing that makes your head spin out of control and think of them. Or if you had lost someone and are working through the breakup the salt in the wound is there for you to grow from it. Pain and pleasure are the two first and last things we feel when we encounter love. The hurt of love in an intricate part of life to know we are growing and can give it freely to others.

Learn more about this author, Dave Shruga.
Click here to send this author comments or questions.