Saturday, March 14, 2015

1273 ACT THREE

2015
This morning's awareness:
If you ask why love in its purest form creates
Feelings of happiness, all around, I'd reply:
In the beginning, love is about
Giving the best of oneself to
The object of your affection no matter
What you receive in return

It's later, when baggage, buried deep but
Carried forward from the past, surfaces, causing
Love to grow defensive on both sides, that
The worm turns and the fishing expedition begins, where
One feels the need to fish for reassurance while
The other grows resistant to showing that
Affection is not waining, and once this
Change for the worse begins to take place
Love feels less like a day at the beach and
More like a salmon swimming upstream ...

Though the description above
Summarizes acts one and two of The Evolution of Love
It's that which takes place in act three that
Determines whether the bonds of love
Develop a lasting connection or not ...
And here's why that deeper truth rings classically true:

If more of us chose to seek insight into
The classic, universal and timeless
Nature of love's three act play
We'd be more likely to train our eyes on
How best to achieve lasting success instead of
Misperceiving the play to be over after act two

Speaking retrospectively, hindsight suggests that with
Attention to detail, a boy-meets-girl love story need not
End sadly and tragically if, after act two
Programs, summarizing the fact that three acts exist
Are distributed, read and discussed before
The love-light dims and the curtain descends on act two

I mean, seriously, it's all too common that
Those who choose to leave the theater after act two
Have no clue how often
The happy ending we crave at every stage of life
May be written into the dialogue that's exchanged between
A boy in love with a girl and
A girl in love with a boy when, during act three
Both choose to learn about
The self destructive effects, perpetrated by
Defensive reactions, which prove instinctively
Natural at every age ...

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