Time Travel
Let me quote something you wrote. "When you
reach the boundary between like and love, you know you are entering
a different country. You are beyond newness and infatuation. You know
what Shakespeare meant when he called love 'an ever-fixed mark that
looks on tempests and is never shaken.'"
On one level, I agree with what you say. But I believe very few of
us find what you describe. We end up settling when we reach a point
at which we realize it is either that or being alone.
I, for one, have never felt what you describe and recently have come
to terms that I will not. I am 50, outgoing, attractive and independent,
with two children who are blessings I would never have if I did not
"settle." I know I will never make that mistake again, and I find I
am alone and probably always will be.
Is love the luck of the draw? Are some of us just luckier than others?
Or is it something lacking in me? I would love to know.
Linda
Linda, sixty years ago the science fiction writer
René Barjavel asked what would happen if you traveled back in time and
killed your grandfather before he met your grandmother. Could this happen?
If it did, you would not exist, so how could you travel back in time?
This dilemma is known as the grandfather paradox.
When you "settled," how did you know the next man wouldn't have been
the perfect one for you? How did you know the children wouldn't have
been his and your children? When you are of the mindset of settling,
you're not thinking of love but of other things--marriage, a house,
children. You've traded love for a time schedule.
When you "settle" for a house, how many more houses do you visit
with your real estate agent? None. How do you know the next house wouldn't
be the one of your heart's desire? When you are dating, married to,
or pregnant by a man you settled for, how likely is it you can see or
be seen by the one for you?
It would be as easy for us to say your children would have been in
your future, if you'd waited. Now you want to discount this idea again,
but you are closer to it now than when you settled--because now you
don't want to settle. This has more to do with patience than with luck.
You don't stop trying to balance your checkbook until things balance.
Perhaps it is your fate to come to this knowing now. Why could this
not happen for you now? Why not tomorrow or next month or next year?
When you are living your life fully, engaging with others, knowing what
you want, why not now?
Wayne & Tamara
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