Loving and Being Loved

To love and be loved is enough.

What an amazing thought. 

Have you ever had enough? 

Have you ever felt you were enough?

What this statement says to me is this …

-My life is not about awards

   -Or money

      -Or houses

         -Or positions and titles

-It’s not about where I've been

   -Or whom I've met

      -Or what cloths I wear

Life is about love – connection – relationships.

Hillary Clinton made a remarkable statement at a town hall meeting in Seoul, South Korea.  The large crowd of 2,000 people, plus millions more watching on South Korean television, seemed to hang onto every word she said.  She sounded more like an advice columnist than a Secretary of State for the United States of America.  Here are two gems from her talk.

“Personal relationships are really what’s important in life.”

And then she related this short quote from a scientist friend of hers (un-named unfortunately)

“I have loved and been loved.  All the rest is background music.”

When it comes down to the essentials in life, it becomes about love and relating and relationships. 

I think that is a pretty grand way to live one’s life.

How do we extrapolate this into today’s lifestyle?

We find ways of relating and accepting each other as creatures that have a life, a voice, an opinion and thought processes.  We may look different, speak a different language and dress differently, yet we are individuals and we have a voice and our voices matter.

And we come back to the essentials. 

To love and be loved

Could the world’s ills be cured by this one simple fact?

I wonder.

P Michael Biggs

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Click here to read a similar post from June 2012.