Blog 58 – 6.25.15

Some years back Tina Turner had a hit song called What’s Love Got To Fo With It? It was a cynical of love song and, Honey, we have all been there. No one can deny that it hurts when you are romantically in love with someone and the don’t love you back in that same way. Still my answer to Tina’s vocal question What’s Love Got To Do With It? is a resounding, EVERYTHING.

For those twenty years of my life, I have previously mentioned, that I tried so hard not to believe in God I still believed in love. Silly of me to even try really because isn’t Love God’s best name? I heard on the way to work this morning a song on the radio from my youth. It was Peter and Gordon singing I Go To Pieces. Even before my first little sweetheart broke my heart I loved that song. “I go to pieces and I cry, every time my Baby passes by.” Beautiful lyrics, melody, harmony and too true for anyone who has known the sting of loving and not being loved in return.

But what of this term, Falling In Love. I wrote a bit on this topic In Love in a previous blog but why do we call it Falling … in Love? I consider myself a thinker and I like to turn things around in my head and look at them from several angles. That is where I get my often slightly skewed view. Things are seldom entirely what they seem at first glance. The simple, pat explanation most times just doesn’t get at the deep underlying meaning of things. Most of us still believe what we were taught as children and just accept what I think is a childish way of looking at things. A sweet little piece called, “What I Learned In Kindergarten” is quite popular but if you have not changed your thinking since Kindergarten I’d have to say your education is probably a bit limited. Just saying, don’t you love it when folks say that? Me either, sorry about that.

I think we say Falling In Love because we view romantic love as a sort of departure from the “highest forms of love.” Like sexual love was a thing for fallen angels. Nonsense or childish thinking, without romantic or sexual love there’d be no children to think childish thoughts and hopefully grow up to think deeper, fuller, more complete thoughts. And by the way in my view askew as as an old song said, “even a bad love is better than no love at all.” Have you fallen in love lately? I highly recommend it. I have often thought bored and lonely married people should maybe have an affair with each other. Do you like piña colada’s and getting caught in the rain? I sure do, though they taste just as good to me without the rum for you tee totalers out there.

Fall in love with life and everyone in it – What a wonderful world, oh yeah.

Your fellow traveler and lover of life,
David White