love – Page 21 – Rebekka Lien

I’m pretty upset because I spent a whole 30 minutes or more typing up a blog post and of course, I was impatient and kept clicking publish, but the internet slowed and somehow I closed it without saving it. This is a writer’s worse nightmare.

I had such good words to share, but now I’m not in the mood for it.

I’ll be straight up then- I met a friend in Melbourne who inspired beauty in my heart. His smile and carefree laughs, jumping on the street for no reason made me realize that “Man! I’m not alone!”. Our mutual love for music, dance, street art, and nice areas to lounge sparked a friendship that would potentially last for life. He stirred up beauty in my heart and I will always remember him for it. He also taught me to grasp each moment and cherish the now. This is so contrary to American culture, and I could only have learned that from a French person- to live life with passion and zest.

In America, I feel, sometimes it’s so easy to be talking to another person, and checking your phone at the same time. It’s so easy to bypass another person without a second thought. It’s easy to go from one appointment to another without actually “THINKING”. OMG BIG SURPRISE. It’s so true because I was once like that. I hate that. I really do. How can you live life without being aware of self, others, and your atmosphere? How can you live life without being “here” and in the “now”? How can you constantly worry about the future when “now” is all you have?

I’ve learned that on my trip, I’ve experienced it. You can only experience “just being” by being in the moment, by experiencing being, being aware of the sounds, the smells, the persons, the environment, by being where you are in the now.

Mon Melbourne Cherie

Found in a bathroom in Melbourne toilet. 🙂

“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,but have not love, I gain nothing.”-1 corinthians 13:1

My personal research project, observing life and friends.

Today I learned this: As I was talking to my mom, the bowl filled with food accidentally slipped through my fingers and bang! Broke into a million splintery pieces. My mom was gracious, didn’t yell. We both started cleaning the mess up.

In that instant I had an epiphany. Sometimes, things just need to BREAK in order for 2 human beings to bond and work together. We need to be broken, to have our lives messed up a little, so that we can come together and build relationship that is stronger, strengthened by tears and brokenness.

SHARED BROKENNESS= SHARED VICTORIES= SHARED LOVE.

What is Love? I struggled with the concept. Everyday I learn something new. Love is being honest, even when it hurts. Love is being truthful about who you are and who someone else is. Love is giving honest and raw advice. Love is listening. Love is not necessarily understanding, but making the effort to understand. Love is accepting yourself as imperfect and accepting others as imperfect, but still loving them wholeheartedly. Love is loving even in brokenness. Love is committing yourself to a person even when you don’t feel like it at that moment. Love is complicated, but simple. Love is persevering until the end. Love is.

To be continued…..More observations to come.