love is difficult
Song of the Day [s o t d]: Nothing Fails by Madonna
one of my favorite new shows, Brothers and Sisters, had a fitting title for my mood, "Love is difficult" and it led me to "Letters to a Young Poet". In the Show, he references Letter No. 7 and here is that wonderful excerpt:
And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the
fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it. This very wish, if you use it calmly and prudently and like a tool, will help you spread out
your solitude over a great distance. Most people have (with the help of conventions) turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive
trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will
never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.
It is also good to love: because love is difficult. For one human
being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for
which all other work is merely preparation.