If you awoke tomorrow and were told, in no uncertain terms, that you could go on living for another 50 years, but without love in your life, or you could have the love of your life but for only a brief period before you died, which would you choose?
None of us, of course, really gets that decision. None of us gets to know how long she or he has on this planet. We live out our days as if they go on forever even though we know, in our minds, that our time on the earth is finite. But how different would our choices and decisions be if we acknowledged that our time was, indeed, short?
Especially our decisions about love.
So often we put off love, ignore love or just consider it something we'll get around to one of these days. Or we spend our lives searching for some ideal love and miss out on the real love that is right in front of us. Then again, sometimes we find the love of our lives only to lose him or her because this other person is not ready, too afraid or simply not willing to risk everything for the possibility of a life filled with the love they honestly and earnestly seek.
You can make a lot of money, you can become an international success, or you can truly love someone. Which do you think is the greatest accomplishment?
You don't have to take my word for it, but I'll choose love.
Every time.
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