A plant analogy for Love....

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Imagine you want to grow a certain type of plant, you know enough about the plant to know the type of seed to look for and which seeds to discard because they will not give you the desired results. You search for a long time for just the right seed and just when you think that the seed you look for may not really even exist(and is only an illusion in your mind)...you find what may be the correct seed. You then plant the seed in the best organic soil you can find, water it, give it light and wait. The waiting is the hardest part...you want this plant to grow so much, for it would mean that the journey was not in vain. That the seeds of the past would no longer hold their scars, that all of those experiences would have been meant to bring you to this point in time, so that you could truly appreciate this one sacred plant. You see the plant pushing though the soil and starting to grow, it is the most beautiful plant and you know this is the one you have been hoping for. However, the plant is young and fragile, too much or too little, rain or sun or wind, could just as easily destroy it before it reaches maturity and blooms as it should. And so the unknown pushes us onward, to try, to risk, to care regardless of the odds. For to risk being hurt is also to risk feeling totally alive. I would choose the risk, the pain, the total neurotic insanity of the whole process...than to give up on Love, and never feel passion, never feel vulnerable, never feel so totally alive! (Feel free to leave a comment or opinion about this writing)