Leap of Love

 

Couldn't find a more gracious, feminine looking diver (guess this will suffice)

 

I’m back!!!!!

I know it has been forever.  Did you miss me???  Well I’ll explain everything as time progresses.  Let’s just say I have been thoroughly enjoying the “un-boo-less” life for the past few months.  I don’t know how to insert an asterisk and the word “un” to the blogs title (if someone does please let me know), so I thought it strange to continue blogging here when I am  no longer booless.   I reckoned it would be a contradiction of sorts, misleading and… well you get it.  I certainly did not want to begin receiving hate mail from the singles club ousting me from the group.  In any event, I have come to learn now, more so than ever before that I just love writing and for that reason can’t seem to stay away.  So while the content may be slightly different, I’m sure there will be something everyone (boo-ed up or not) can relate to.  At least that is my hope.

That’s it for my disclaimer.  And now that the preliminaries are out of the way (well sort of)… on with the good stuff.

I can’t say I haven’t taken what I would consider leaps in the name of love in the past.  Guess what makes this current leap different was that the past leaps were primarily me wishfully thinking the person I was looking to leap for would morph into someone other than they were.  So I leaped in the “well, they aren’t everything I was looking for, but we’ll try to make this work” sense– love conquers all kind of thing.  The leap of love I reference now though is certainly of an entirely different magnitude.  I decided to leap because of love, not in the hopes that I’d stumble upon it and serendipitously find it.  Love makes sacrifices and does so willingly after all right?  So this leap leaves me halfway across the country so that every spare moment the boo has, we can spend it together (well at least that was my hope).  Funny how the way our imaginations paint pictures somehow look slightly blurred and distorted compared to the portrait of reality.  This leap also leaves me with an extraordinary amount of time on my hands.  I heard someone say that we need to spend time with ourselves so we can get to know who we really are.  I have an awful lot of learning to do.  But time no less–and while it is perfect for blogging but the flip side of it is the enormous amount to time I have to think about life, love, and the like.  They say love is the most discussed topics in all of human history.  The most written about, the most complex, the thing that has lead to the most confusion and study.  I think we can all understand why.

And while there are a plethora of reasons why people take leaps in life, how many people still take leaps of love?  And if people are leaping for love all the time, are they leaping together in the name of love or is it one party leaping for love while the other is leaping for an entirely different reason?  If two people leap together but for different reasons, it eventually becomes apparent.  What are you leaping for?