Love

Love is a lot of things.  It comes in as many shades of color as the spectrum...and I mean the full, ultraviolet to infrared and everything in-between spectrum.


There are a few things that love definitely is and that love isn't.

For one thing, I don't care what kind of pansy-ass froo froo white lace and promises, catch-the-bouquet sort of rose-colored spectacles you look at love through, it is NOT always patient.  Sometimes what Love wants, Love gets and it's getting it NOW dammit, come hell or high water!  Of course, if it doesn't get it right away it doesn't give up either.  In that respect, Love is patient if you mean "patient" as in "hard-headedly persistent".

Love isn't always kind either.  Sometimes Love is downright mean.  True Love gives you what you need more than what you want.  Sometimes what you need is a good hard kick in the ass.  Chances are, when you get it, it'll be someone who dearly loves you that delivers the blow. 

One thing Love definitely is, is forgiving.  Heck, I might go so far as to say that Love IS forgiveness.  Love is when you just can't stay mad at your best friend, or your mom, or your sibling.  Love is when your kid scribbles on the wedding dress you made yourself and you're so mad you could chew up Hot Wheels cars and spit out Jacks, but you see the look on their face just from them knowing they're in poor favor at that moment and your heart breaks and you forgive them faster than you can say Spaghetti-Os.

Love is knowing when what you have to give isn't what someone needs and letting them go because of it.

It's knowing when what you have to say is exactly what they need to hear, even if it's difficult for you to say it...and it's knowing when what someone is saying is exactly what you need to hear, even if you don't like the words.

Love is doing and saying for the greater good, regardless of personal ideals.