How to love - a guide to how to love from start to finish
by
Lars Hindsley
on Wed 15 Aug 2007 11:52 AM EDT
How to Love
Love is a myth, built on a dream, broken by desire and bound to every man’s heart.
-Lars Hindsley
I’ll break this down in two sections, finding love, and being in love.
How to love is hard. Love is a hard word. To begin, you can’t love anyone until you learn to love yourself. Not a narcissistic love, but a feeling of contentment with yourself. You must know who you are so you know what your value to someone else is. I’m not saying you should relish being alone, but can you be good at it? Again, loving yourself is not a self-centered love of ones-self. It is about knowing what you want out of life, where you are going, how you will get there and whatever journey you may be on you are comfortable with it.
YOUR LOVE WILL FIND YOU
To love, you should be worth something to someone. And perhaps the best you are is just an every day man or woman that simply wants no more than to be a housewife or working man. But remember this, you will draw a like person depending on the world around you. If you want to marry an actress, you don’t stand much of a chance working on the corner dime store. You may need to face up that the love you search for is a love you have not set yourself up for. I’ll speak of this more soon but lets stay with the point of drawing like minded people. There is saying I learned of when I sang in a band years ago, “Your audience will find you.” That meant that we needed ... more »
