Wax On

We keep things shiny: gold, diamonds, crystal, windows. We're always polishing up floors and cars and silver but love? Nope. There's something about human nature that ignores what is most precious until it's gone. Love is the perfect commodity. It earns interest if we let it. It can't be traded and yet it is bandied about as though it is a toy. Sure, it becomes worn in time like everything else, but when it is no longer there it is sadly missed. Why didn't I ? What could I have done? Where did it go? How did I go wrong? When it's too late, these questions, if we're honest, seem, all, to point in one direction. Straight back at you. Love is complicated and very hard sometimes. Forgiveness is easy to say but very difficult to do. Tolerance is even harder. Ego and pride keep us from what will fix love turned sour.  But all these are requirements to keeping love alive.Oh sure, there are some relationships that are over and dead and buried, but mostly love has simply died of starvation. It has to be  nurtured and polished until it shines. Only you know how to do that if you just remember the beginning. Remembering is the glue that puts it all back together and makes love stronger than ever. Polish out pride and prejudice and give your love a new life. When it's gone...