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Archive for December, 2005

Something I’ll soon forget

Someday I will just look back at all these.. and feel nostalgic.
Some things that might have been..
Some things that should have been.

So sue me.. Im a Cancerian, you know..
Can I help it? Im falling..

“The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48″
Love Love (lu^v), n. OE. love, luve, AS. lufe, lufu; akin
to E. lief, believe, L. lubet, libet, it pleases, Skr. lubh
to be lustful. See Lief.
1. A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which
delights or commands admiration; pre”eminent kindness or
devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love
of brothers and sisters.
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Of all the dearest bonds we prove
Thou countest sons’ and mothers’ love
Most sacred, most Thine own. –Keble.
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2. Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate
affection for, one of the opposite sex.
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He on his side
Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love
Hung over her enamored. –Milton.
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3. Courtship; — chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e.,
to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage.
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Demetrius . . .
Made love to Nedar’s daughter, Helena,
And won her soul. –Shak.
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4. Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or
desire; fondness; good will; — opposed to hate; often
with of and an object.
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Love, and health to all. –Shak.
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Smit with the love of sacred song. –Milton.
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The love of science faintly warmed his breast.
–Fenton.
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5. Due gratitude and reverence to God.
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Keep yourselves in the love of God. –Jude 21.
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6. The object of affection; — often employed in endearing
address; as, he held his love in his arms; his greatest
love was reading. “Trust me, love.” –Dryden.
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Open the temple gates unto my love. –Spenser.
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7. Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus.
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Such was his form as painters, when they show
Their utmost art, on naked Lores bestow. –Dryden.
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Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love.
–Shak.
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8. A thin silk stuff. Obs. –Boyle.
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9. (Bot.) A climbing species of Clematis (Clematis
Vitalba).
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10. Nothing; no points scored on one side; — used in
counting score at tennis, etc.
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He won the match by three sets to love. –The
Field.
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11. Sexual intercourse; — a euphemism.
PJC

Closing Cycles by Paolo Coelho

One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through.

Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished. Did you lose your job? Has a loving relationship come to an end? Did you leave your parents’ house? Gone to live abroad? Has a long-lasting friendship ended all of a sudden?

You can spend a long time wondering why this has happened. You can tell yourself you won’t take another step until you find out why certain things that were so important and so solid in your life have turned into dust, just like that. But such an attitude will be awfully stressing for everyone involved: your parents, your husband or wife, your friends, your children, your sister, everyone will be finishing chapters, turning over new leaves, getting on with life, and they will all feel bad seeing you at a standstill.

None of us can be in the present and the past at the same time, not even when we try to understand the things that happen to us. What has passed will not return: we cannot for ever be children, late adolescents, sons that feel guilt or rancor towards our parents, lovers who day and night relive an affair with someone who has gone away and has not the least intention of coming back.

Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. That is why it is so important (however painful it maybe!) to destroy souvenirs, move, give lots of things away to orphanages, sell or donate the books you have at home. Everything in this visible world is a manifestation of the invisible world, of what is going on in our hearts and getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.

Let things go. Release them. Detach yourself from them. Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood. Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over and over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.

Nothing is more dangerous than not accepting love relationships that are broken off, work that is promised but there is no starting date, decisions that are always put off waiting for the ideal moment. Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come back. Remember that there was a time when you could live without that thing or that person. Nothing is irreplaceable. A habit is not a need. This may sound so obvious, it may even be difficult, but it is very important.

Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.