I love a challenge.
How do you define challenge?
Well feel a challenge is something that makes you move beyond your comfort zone.
This seems to be different from the masses and the asses. Too many of the upstanding microcephalics of my town feel a challenge is only a challenge if there is competition. If there is a winner and a looser.
I disagree.
A challenge is a very personal thing.
I love a challenge.
I am rarely challenged-- and I mean that on so many levels.
I don't think I have the vocabulary to explain the depth of emotion in that last sentence you just read. But trust me there is a great deal of meaning and emotion to it. Maybe that's why a challenge to me is such a wonderful thing.
Dan challenged me to write of things I love.
Wow. Very Deep. There are SO many aspects of love. The physical, the emotional, the mental, and the spiritual types of love. And there are not just aspects but levels and types and my head is now spinning!!!
Where could I possibly begin? Would the list ever end?
Damn you Dan!!!
For those of you who know me well, you know I am a glass-half-full thinker. That means my "love" list could be, should be, will be, very long. Also, it can be very diverse. My spiritual "loves" and my physical "loves" could be in conflict according to some-- but yet they are loves of mine.
What to do??? How can I accomplish this daunting task? Could I list all my loves in just one blog?? Would anyone care if I did? (a constant question in my bloggings)
And then there is another question-- should I define my love? For example, I love cats. I am allergic to cats and I cant have any but nonetheless I love them and I wish I could have a house full of them. I love there independence and their curiosity and their very conditional love. Would it mean more if I put that down? Or should I just write "I love cats" ?
Dan, I will write my loves, but unlike my hates, I need a bit more. Time to make sure I do justice to my loves.
Keep a watchful eye folks... And if there is a love of mine you'd like to know about... Well just let me know! More to come!
Oh, I LOVE that you are reading my blog. That's right-- you -- yes you!!
4 comments:
Yes! Spending time on our LOVE lists should be longer than on our HATE lists -- and the more time we spend on the love lists, the better it is for our mental health, I believe.
And the best such lists are specific. For instance, instead of saying "hiking" I would say "the smell of pine and the soft blanket of fallen needles under my feet". And so on.
There's a wonderful scene in the movie Manhattan where Woody Allen lies on a couch and makes a list of things that make life worth living: Groucho Marx, Willie Mays, the second movement of the Jupiter Symphony, Louis Armstrong's recording of Potato Head Blues, those incredible apples and pears by Cezanne, the crabs at Sam Wo's ...
It's probably my favorite scene in the movie.
I think you stated your fellin most eloquently.Love is a nebulous emotion,and hard to define.
That you love a challenge comes as no surprise.I got that sense the first time I read your blog,and have enjoyed reading it since.
..oops...feeling..:)
You write about things you love all the time even if you don't realize it as you do it. It's one of the things I love about you... (and many other bloggers as well)
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