When you're loved by someone, you're never rejected; decide what to be and go be it.

So, my mind is going all the time, and it just goes and goes, and it thinks thoughts, my own thoughts, and it runs through the thoughts of others too: friends, poets, novelists, songwriters, etc., things they've thought and said, and they mix with my thoughts and become my thoughts too; they become a part of me.  And so I was listening to the Avett Brothers the other day, their newest album, and the name of this post is a line from one of their songs (Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise), and it reminded of the ability of love, genuine love, to free and empower.  The statement above, in a real loving relationship of whatever type, should be true, and if it's not...  I'll just stop there.  And these thoughts led me to the thoughts of Max Frisch, in I'm Not Stiller (which, if you haven't read, you should; if you want to borrow it, I've got a copy with your name on it):

"--not for nothing does it say in the Commandments 'Thou shalt not make unto thee any image' ...Every image is a sin. When you love someone you leave every possibility open to them, and in spite of all the memories of the past you are ready to be surprised, again and again surprised, at how different they are, how various, not a finished image."

This is a passage that I've internalized, and this is something I try to live.  I try to love like this, to give love in a way that is freeing and empowering and accepting.  Anyway, this isn't really a coherent or complete thought, just a bit of sharing, and I'm done!