For me death in life always makes me take a step back and reassess my life on many levels. Currently I have been really trying to figure out what are the most important things in my life? When I do this of course that thought always brings me back to love. Where is the love in my life and where is there not enough love? These questions are important to ask not just now, but throughout your life. If you haven’t ever asked that question I hope that you do now.
I took all of this last spring break off to really take some time away from things. This break has given me much time to think about the love in my life. Love in life comes in so many different forms and it's truly amazing. Most people think of love as just between your partner, but that is only part of the story. Love really is all around us and happening in every moment whether we take notice or not.
The song that I picked for this week is one that came on in the middle of one of the many deep contemplations I had about love over spring break. It seem to fit perfectly to where I’m at with love at least in the pondering stage. Lets go to the lyrics to pick out some thoughts I connected to and then I will share some of my moments of realizing love in my life in more recent times.
"Love Is..."
Yeah, yeah
[Chorus]
How beautiful love can be
(Yes, it really can be and it is such a powerful force in the universe.)
On the streets love is hard to see
It's a place I got to be
(There are definitely places in life that are harder to find love, but it’s our searching for love in these places that brings love to them.)
Loving you is loving me
How beautiful love can be
On the streets love is hard to see
Gotta reach that frequency
Loving you is loving me
(Love the phrase “Loving you is loving me” because it is so true. Whether we realize it or not we are all more connected than we think. Big part of seeing that connection is tapping into that higher frequency where love is.)
[Verse 1]
Yeah, you know what love is
(We all know what love is even if we get lost a long the way love is always there.)
Even found it on the ground where the thugs live
My man had to dig deep to find his
Couldn't sleep 'cause on the real he had five kids
Live nig's, real niggaz express and taste it
At crap games, black dames and big faces
Cases in court, fam' showin' love and support
You and your baby's mom thought that love was a sport
“As men we were taught to hold it in
That's why we don't know how 'til we're older men
If love is a place I'ma go again
At least now, now I know to go within”
(Right here is the meat of the song for me. This is something that has resonated with myself for quite a few years. These lyrics alone are so powerful. They are the connection I made to myself when I realized I had grown into the man that I am. )
At time it can take ya for a spin
Heartbreak hotel then you're home again
(Crazy how twisted love can get in your life sometimes, but eventually you always come back to it.)
I've seen love make a nigga soul pretend
Like a story that he don't want to end
Yo
[Chorus]
[Verse 2]
It's all love where we come from
In the hood love we was told to run from
That same hood where the guns sung
We holla love, hopin' it would come one
Crack got so many lives undone
From lack of love many hide some run
I knew this girl with a son who dreamt of actin' in plays
Demonstration with her man had her trapped in a maze
Tryin' to find herself again, much of that she'd have gave
Love can free us, to it some of us react as a slave
Funny, we love 'em more when they're relaxed in a grave
(Why do we love them more after they leave us? Love can be the biggest freedom that we have in life and yet we do many things to keep us from it.)
Wonder if a thug is raw, is he actin' afraid?
Everybody loves sun, why do I attract shade?
Heard of the love of money, but compassion it pays
(Absolutely love this line above. No longer am I in love with money or the life that it brings. Funny the things that I thought I wanted not even a decade ago that seem so pointless now. I plan to be very rich in my life, but not through material things. Instead I try in every moment to add the true treasures that love gives us on the regular to my heart.)
Talk about it with my youth so she'd understand
What it is to be loved by a man
Uh
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Some say that I'm a dreamer 'cause I talk about it often
(It’s true and you may even be saying that right now as you read this. I will not stop and I hope you join us one day.)
Seen the hardest nigga soften wit' his homie in a coffin
We walk and stand in, fall in it
With the right companion we all in it
Mary sang a song about it, having broad limits
In the game of life, it's the scrimage
Reminiscing on letters I wrote in my small days
A letter to the people, love always
Yeah
[Chorus]
(These are my the words to the people, love always.)
Love is...
...having a second family that treats me like one of their own.
...having a best friend that stays that way over many many years.
...listening to that best friend read books with his wife’s daughter.
...to have deep conversations with my buddies mother.
...people that I know and don’t know stepping into my life to fill the holes of my life when life throws me for a spin
...having a family that cares a lot about me.
...having my best friends family absorb me into there lives the more that I see them.
...two wonderful young girls who wanted me to be involved with them being tucked in at night when I was visiting.
...having a classmate help me stay on track in the class we shared together and even drove my take home exam to me when I missed class from being sick.
...having a great meal with two really good friends and their son.
...hearing my cousin laugh very hard.
...having all my gamer friends playing together.
...friends that aren’t just parents by necessity, but because they love it.
...the thing my mother gave the most to all her children and everyone that was in her life.
...waking up in the morning with another chance to take on the world.
There is so many more moments that I can’t think of right in this moment, but those are some of the ones that I have taken notice of recently. I’m always trying hard to listen closely to find many more places that love is. I hope that you are too because there is true wealth all around us. Money doesn’t grow on trees, but maybe love does?
As always I bring this to you with so much love and pure D-lite. = )
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