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does love have a cost??? by angelleyess at 11/30/2007 10:32:03 AM DOES LOVE HAVE A COST? We often talk of a love that last like our grandparents knew Forty, Fifty, Sixty years with the same person Hard to imagine yet we have seen that it can be true Have we not searched for it, given our all for it and felt the pain of loss when it ended. What started here in some rhyme of a poet’s song allowed itself to change because the message was more important than the rhyme. Do you see that love to has a cost? Something we must give up to hold the love of another above our own needs. Not forced but volenteered because the other person's joy is our desire. This is difficult in a time when men and women are heralded for being strong, doing it on their own, not answering to another. We admire the traits of the lonely. No we do not call them lonely for they are on the move making things happen in their world and having fun----when everyone is looking. We are so often the people alone in a crowd even in the center of attention. Sound familiar? So what part of it are we willing to give up for love. Would you give up your video game for a walk in the park? A night out with your friends to cuddle on the couch with a good movie? Does that sound boring? Do you remember when it did? The great loves we all admire are between people who gladly set aside some personal desires to build a relationship with the one they loved. How many of us have broken up with someone because they would not set something aside for us or have walked away because they asked us to give up something important to us? And then you have to wonder if that thing was all that important after all. How do we get to the place with another human being of equallity in giving, loving, caring and time?