What a Ride! posted 2/13/2009 10:13:44 PM | 5 kudos what's this?     report abuse tagged: relationship, love

EquuisdancerDbndon

Riding Love’s River of Life.

Sometimes the ride is smooth. Other times the twisting turns of circumstance can be like white-water rafting the most malicious of rivers.



Sometimes we think it’s the “real thing.” Other times we feel it’s the real thing. Whatever we feel, it often starts out like the gentle flow of a stream meandering through a meadow, lazily twisting and turning, seemingly at its own will. Then, just as we become content and comfortable, ever so slowly the flow picks up speed, the current growing faster. The twists and turns begin to spin you around until you are often never quite sure exactly what's around the next bend. Later, it sometimes seems as though you went over a waterfall and you are suddenly riding never-ending rapids where you find yourself crashing along in a series of bumps and whirlpools. But, eventually the river once again slows, turns, and you're in a quiet pool -- be it for a minute or a day or a week -- only to go around the bend and begin once again riding out new forceful rapids. You get thrown about in shorter, then longer and wilder maneuvers that you cannot control.

Then suddenly, just as you start to think you have things under control again, come surprises and snags in the rocky stretches that may suddenly appear and block the forward motion. Ah yes, but always ahead are the pools and quiet water; the quiet stretches suddenly growing larger and appearing more often, even if they aren't always visible because of the intermixed bumps, twists, turns and snags.

Every river has an end that brings you to a new place, often fascinating, wide and open like the sea. Approaching that part of the journey, you have a decision to make: go back to the safety of the shore and once again be alone, or ride the flow of love “together” with the ongoing current to new and unknown places.

Whatever choice you decide to take at that point, you'll never forget the journey -- but you will be stronger, either as one or as a couple. And when you later look back in time, you will remember fondly the interaction of both the quiet pools and wild rapids.

Some journeys are longer than others and, if we're lucky, some last a lifetime!

May everyone find the smooth trickle of a stream and many interesting pools and rapids, along with the adventures of an ever-growing love. And may long-term lovers never forget how to go back to the flow of the meandering stream and repeatedly renew that adventure of a new and exciting love.

Happy Valentines Day!


Written by Dancer – 2009
Kibitzed on by DbnDon

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