All You Need Is Love

Life has been rather hectic the past couple of months. My youngest niece informed us she was getting married and we had six weeks to pull it off. So we worked our tails off, had a few disagreements (not with me, but between her and her sister - who was doing the majority of the work), a lot of sleepless nights, a lot of fun, and last Saturday we had a beautiful wedding.

There were some who doubted she should be getting married (again not me) since they had only been dating a couple of months, and they are from very different cultures - he is from Nigeria - but love is love and when it's right, it's right. Love is timeless, love is color blind, love is universal, but love isn't easy. However, anything worth having is worth working hard for.

I guess you could say I'm a romantic, a hopeful romantic. I believe that no matter what love conquers all. If you let love guide you can get through anything, whether it's your love life, personal life, family life, or career. I know it sounds very simplistic and idealistic, but it seems to work for me. That's not to say that I walk around with rose colored glasses on or anything, I just believe it's easier to get through the good and the bad when you put the ones you love(including yourself) first.

Love is the stuff dreams are made of, and without are dreams what are we?

Look at the amount of "love stories" that are produced by Hollywood, and how many people flock to them. We all want to love and to be loved in return. The poor and the rich alike. It's one thing we all have in common. It's a basic need like food, water, air.

Sure it was risky for my niece and her new husband to "take the plunge" after such a short courtship, but as I watched them the past six weeks and especially during the wedding I saw the love in their eyes, I saw forever in their eyes. If they remember and hold on to that then forever is definitely within their grasp.

When all is said and done, when all the poets have submitted their prose and rhymes, when all the philosophers have weighed in, and the critics have had their say, no one not even Shakespeare himself could have said it any better than John, Paul, George, and Ringo....

Truly, "All You Need IS Love."