i've thought about this before. i'm thinking about it now. that's how i roll.
you know that great energy you feel for someone when you fall in love? well what happens to that energy when you are no longer together? does it get transferred to someone else? does it become a different energy like hate, disgust, indifference, like, etc.?
i'm thinking the second happens. that all emotions are an energy and that you can't possibly love someone so much and just have that die - that seems so terrible to me. so perhaps the energy just morphs into something else.
it still seems sad to me. i am a romantic and i would like to think that no one would ever stop loving me even though i have stopped loving people.
tell me your thoughts - i'm curious.
I love that you're contemplating this!
ReplyDeleteWe are love. That is our nature at its core. So when we find someone to love, they become the object for our love to be directed toward; the receptacle for our awaiting love. They are the mirror for what is already brimming within us but we can't always see. And it's a relief, and a release and it feels so amazing when we find that person because we have unleashed what already lives within us.
The illusion is that we need another person to feel this love. And the illusion is that when the person goes away, the love either goes away or has to become something else. We think that feeling this love is not enough, or that it's dangerous or we attach stories to it like: "Ok, if I love this person so much, then we should be together." But really we are simply here to love and to experience being love.
I had a heartbreak a while back. Luckily, I had been meditating a lot and really noticing what my mind and heart does on a day to day, moment to moment basis. And when my heart was broken, I remember feeling this rush...this knowing that this person only tapped the spring in my heart. Now my love was running and pouring out of me. And I knew I would find another object on which to place that love. And that this love is simply...me. And it was now untapped and free flowing. It simply had no more object to flow to. It was a lovely feeling. I began to simply bathe in this love, emanating it for no damn good reason other than the fact that I *was* love.
And maybe because I was walking around awash in this love, I did find another object of my affection and love. A very worthy object. And the love kept pouring forth.
So we can allow our heart to be broken open so that our true nature can shine through, or we can try to stuff it back inside. Or turn the love in to something else because our mind tells us to. But I think our soul wants us to simply love.
xo