FALLING IN LOVE.........Only fools rush in?

It’s what we want. What we’ve always wanted, since we were barely in our teens. We listened to the songs on the radio, watched it in the movies, and oh….we wanted to feel that wonderful love, love, love.

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Ever wonder why the phrase is “falling” in love?
According to my dictionary, the word fall means the following;
A disastrous overwhelming defeat or ruin,
A sudden, involuntary drop to the ground,
collapse,
decline….descent….and so on.
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Sometimes love can feel like the closest thing to heaven and sometimes love can feel like you've been run over by a car. You actually “fall”, you plummet downward. Love is the best thing for the heart, but it can tear your life apart. It's as sweet as summer rain - but it can hit you like a train, and fill your heart with pain.

Here is an excerpt from an article, titled “The Telephone Call”
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Please God, let him telephone me now. Dear God, let him call me now. I won’t ask anything else of You, truly I won’t. It isn’t very much to ask. It would be so little to You, God, such a little thing. Only let him telephone now. Please, God, please, please.
If I didn’t think about it, maybe the telephone might ring. Sometimes it does that. If I could think of something else. Oh, please ring, please.
This is the last time I’ll look at the clock. I will not look at it again. It’s ten minutes past seven. He said he would telephone at five o’clock. “I’ll call you at five, darling.” I think that’s where he said “darling”. I’m almost sure he said it there. I know he called me “darling” twice, and the other time was when he said goodbye. “Good bye, darling.” He was busy, and he can’t say much in the office, but he called me darling twice. I want him so much, I miss him so much. I’ll be good, God, I will try to be better, I will, if You will let him phone me. Oh, please let him phone me now.
Maybe the clock’s fast. I don’t know whether it’s right. Maybe he had to stay late at the office. Maybe he went home, to call me up from there, and somebody came in. He doesn’t like to telephone me in front of people. Maybe he’s worried, just a little, about keeping me waiting. Maybe he’s hoping that I might call him. I could do that. I could telephone him.
I mustn’t, I can’t, I shouldn’t. Oh, God, please don’t let me call him, please keep me from doing that. I won’t telephone him. I’ll never call him again as long as I live. He’ll rot in hell, before I’ll call him up. You don’t have to give me strength, God, I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I’m waiting here. He’s so sure of me, so sure.
Maybe I mis-heard him. Maybe he said for me to call him at five. “”Call me at five, darling.” He could have said that. It’s so possible that I didn’t hear him right. I’m almost sure he said that… “call me at five, darling”.
I’ll think about something else. I’ll just sit quietly. If I could sit still. Maybe I could read. Oh, all the books are about people who love each other, truly and sweetly. Why do they write that? Don’t they know it isn’t true? Don’t they know it’s a lie, it’s a god-damned lie? Why do they have to say it, when they know how much it hurts. Damn them, damn them.
Please God, please. I’ll count to five hundred, please let him call before then, please.
One, two, three, four, five…………..

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go ahead you can have my heart,

It's been through a lot

a little more won't break it.

I might look ready to fall apart

but give it everything you've got

this heart of mine can take it.

you can't appreciate the sunshine,

till you've seen the rain

Tell you something you can be sure of

there can be no perfectly pure love
you can't have love

you can't have love without pain.

you take the heartache away

and you'll never hold on to the things that remain

you can't have love

love without pain.

so you cry a tear every day,

or you find out that you've lost

more than you've gained.
give me something i know is real

make it strong enough

so there can be no doubt about it

being numb that's no way to feel

I'd rather suffer love than live my life without it

can't expect to climb a mountain

and see no rough terrain

even if I find that I'm hurting

that's ok cause one thing for certain ......

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AIN'T LOVE GRAND?

and of course, the answer is......yes, yes, yes,.....love is grand, even with all the pain, and the uncertainty, and the wishing and waiting and hoping - it's all worth it. For what is life without love??

That's my opinion and my experience....What about you?