February is the month of love. Stores are decorated in red filled with cards and chocolates to express love on Valentines Day. Jewelers expertly play on love to push sales that say diamonds are forever giving the illusion that a stone equals love and a quick purchase equals love forever.
Miranda Lambert's new release 'Automatic' touches on how hard work led to increased satisfaction way back when in a world that has become automatic:
Hey whatever happened to
Waiting your turn
Doing it all by hand
Cause when everything is handed to you
It's only worth as much as the time you put in
It all just seemed so good the way we had it
Back before everything became automatic
Automatic
How does love compete in a world where everything has become technology-based? We live in a society where is faster is better, everything/anything right now is at your fingertips.
Temptation. Enticement. Fascination. Seduction.
Destruction.
Eros love is known as erotic love. It is the concept of being in love, the romantic type of love; however, it is based on emotions temporarily, and exists in perfect conditions as long as things feel happy. When a person doesn't "feel happy" anymore in loving a person, they believe they have fallen out of love. Love is not based on the feelings of the moment.
How does love survive a society that casually says love is cards, chocolates and diamonds? How does love survive in a generation of technology where faster is better at the right-now fingertips of anything you want temptation?
How does real love exist that stands through the threads of time?
Each of us will reach the end of our lifetime. I want mine looking in the eyes of the one I love, full of love with no regrets, reflecting back on a lifetime full of memories that love built. I want to leave a legacy of love for my girls and my grandchildren that is an unshakable foundation in a desperate world that love is rich and full as God intended it. I want to teach them and show them that unconditional love weathers imperfect conditions and lasts a lifetime.
That being in love is incredibly difficult. Being in love is awesome. Being in love can seem impossible at times. Being in love is breathless and beautiful. Even when we are imperfect.
Love is a verb.
It is an action word.
Love is a choice.
