Learning To Love Reality

June 16, 2009 | Filed Under Small Talk 

I think the hardest and most important thing to do in life is to learn to love the real rather than the ideal.

Learning to love the real me.  That’s been hard.

For so long I had been trained to love the perception of me that people had. The nice guy with an above average intellect.  It’s easy to love that guy.  But that’s not me.  And it’s not real love.

Learning to love my wife as she really is.  That’s been hard.

For so long I have loved the woman in my head.  Flawless.  Gentle. Without blemish.  Perfect.  It’s easy to love that image.  But it’s insignifcant because it is not real. The love is misdirected towards a non-existent entity.

Learning to love God for who he really is.  That’s been hard.

For so long I have loved a God who fit my understanding.  A God who was condensed and who made sense.   But that’s not the real God.

Learning to love the World for what it really is.  That been hard.

For so long I have loved a world without pain, suffering or hardship.  I have loved a world without mosquitoes and death.  But that’s not the real world.

To truly love, we must value truth.  We must reject the common temptation to love the ideal perception that we create in our minds rather than the thing itself, without condition.

When we paint perceptions in our minds, we place conditions on reality.   And love loses it’s depth; it’s bite.  I for one want the bite of Love in all it’s glory and splendor.

Not the Walmart version.

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