Open Yourself to Love

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

- William M. Thackeray

Oh, those darn emotions.  They take us up and bring us down.  Do not curse them or wish them away.  What a privilege to feel the flutters, the joys and yes, even the sorrows.  Those feelings signify that we are human and alive.  Emotions can be tough to manage and confusing, but if they were predictable they would be facts and not feelings.  To experience love and to keep it is amazing, but the experience love and lose it it still a wondrous thing.  The difference is that love lost is all the more acute for the perspective of feeling its absence.  Love, love whole-heartedly.  When you have opened yourself to love, you open yourself to being alive.