Why is it so looked down upon to say I love you so quickly? Why is it people automatically assume when you say you love some one there is a specific amount of time that must pass before that love is respected or legitimate? Are we not supposed to live today as it were our last? Doesn't every religion out there plainly express a need to love everyone? Why do people have to put emotions down of others, do you truly believe it is impossible to love someone you just met?
Here are my thoughts.......
So I read these very interesting quotes and they really got me thinking,
- Sympathy is not compassion; it is just the opposite. Sympathy is a kind of exploitation of the other person. When you sympathize with somebody, you are higher, better, and the other is lower, falling, degraded. Your ego gets immense satisfaction out of sympathy. But this is how the unconscious mind functions. You don’t know exactly what you are doing.
- This word “compassion” is composed of passion. To be compassionate means to be in love. Compassion is just a dimension of love. Passion is hasty, hectic, a little violent. Compassion is gentle, nice, understanding — but it is passion after all.
Compassion itself is love, that is a true statement, I feel that there are many different levels of love you may have for a person. Regardless of whether they are a stranger or intimately known, love can be developed and felt from it. Some people say the word "LOVE" is used so frequently it has no meaning unless time proves differently. I feel the exact opposite, I think that at any given moment love can not only be felt but shared.
Example....
One day at work, I was in front of the doors, (I was a server for weddings) and this woman came up to me from the party. She stopped and started talking to me (suprise suprise..yes I am a magnet for people to confess there life stories to me) as she spoke she told me all the problems in her family, how her mom didn't show up to her wedding but was here at her sisters wedding, so on so forth. Some of the things she had to say were pretty devastating, and you can feel the pain she was going through emotionally, at that moment I felt love for her, not because I was being sympathetic, but because I truly felt her pain and wanted to take it away even if it was just for that moment, and I did...by giving her 15 minutes of undivided attention and showing her compassion (love), she thanked me over and over and smiled and walked away.
When you have deep compassion for anyone or anything it is very easy to not only fall in love with them but have love for them. Even tho the depths of love vary depending on what kind of relationship it is, the love itself still exists. Those who try to belittle you for sharing your love, not everyone will understand this, its really hard to explain. Truthfully compassion should be shown to everyone, everywhere. My friends sometimes get mad because I forgive easily, and love hard, especially to those who "supposedly least deserve it", but in reality it is them who need it the most!
Do not be scared to love and lose, in the end we always learn something and regardless of how long it lasts its always worth the ride, tomorrow is not promised and in life no matter how many years pass, no one can guarantee a lifelong commitment, all we can do is commit to the now and enjoy every breath, every smile, every tear, every laugh, and live life wholeheartedly. So stop today to send a smile, share some love and compassion.....take it from me, I promise it will never run out! You will be surprised how many lives you change, just by doing so.
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