love

love is a funny thing, it is something we all desire but once you have felt love's sting you are reluctant to embrace it again....we need and crave love but fear creeps in and past pain sears itself into our memories so that we cannot forget. we have to now weigh the consequences of letting ourselves love or be loved again, and question whether or not it is worth the potential for pain. yet sometimes in spite of our wariness about it, someone manages to get in over walls that have been built up and your emotional paralysis. And when that happens, and you actually embrace it and let yourself feel again, hope returns bright and beautiful...perhaps it is also a matter of allowing the optimism to take over and believing that it will truly be different this time around. you will never know until you try.....is it worth the risk??? i say YES!!! the hope and power of love is worth it, the pain hurts and the scars never really go away but they make you who you are and that is who someone will someday fall in love with...if you let them.