“I STILL BELIEVE”

                                         

                                                       The Power of True Romance

Some people remain skeptical when it comes to anything that deals with love or romance. They say that it is a figment of one’s imagination, legend, it isn’t real. Romance is something that only exists on the pages of a novel or on a movie screen, in real life, virtually a dream.

Oh but I disagree, romance for me is not a figment of the imagination. It’s something tangible and genuine to me. True love is an emotion, one that touches the heart, feeds the spirit, and binds the soul to something or someone.

Maybe I am a hopeless romantic, lost in a world of make believe, fantasy where fairytales began. Knights in shining armor and storybook royalty one of the greatest stories ever told.

We live in a world filled with eroticism, gratuitous sex that has nothing to do with happily ever after or everlasting.

True romance is durable and endures hardship, trials and tribulations no matter how daunting the tasks.   

I know the world would like to paint you a portrait of allegorical images, distortions of what love actually is. Illusions, pictures painted by unbelievers that make love seem dire and unrealistic. Somewhere along the way, the vision distorted and hope lost.  

I still believe, because what is a world without love, a very barren place, a desert, an alien planet void of all existence.  

Love and romance is proof of life, like a seed planted in fertile soil that springs forth revealing itself at the right time.

True romance is powerful, healing, and strong enough to conquer all doubt. Love is an intense feeling of deep affection, which collaborates with romance a feeling of excitement and mystery.

It is still very much alive and not dead, as some would have you to believe.

When did the idea of these too quintessential elements become so tainted, and why?

Perhaps, it got lost in the jostle of sex sells and who needs love anyway because no one really cares.

Not true. I still care and many others do as well.

Love is everywhere we look, when and if we open our eyes to see it wholeheartedly.

Love overpowers hate and romance triumphantly duels and wins the battle with all pseudo-isms that challenges it.

Without love all is left is hate.

Love is what makes the world revolve. Without it we are hopeless, set adrift not anchored by emotion essentially, the very thing that makes us human.

If I had to choose a side, true romance, love, would win every time.

Life is a battle zone, often uncaring, unforgiving, and not long-suffering.

Love is everything. It is essential to our very existence. It is what gives us hope of a better tomorrow. A future filled with new beginnings and inspiration.

Love is what motivates us to move forward, to stand up strong and proud against adversity.  

Love is what shapes and makes us human.

I submit to you the very origins of love a gift from God: who so loved the world that he gave the begotten son.

Love is many splendid things special, a super power and defender of truth and faith. What is hope without faith?

I still believe that love is not retro, but an active affection to be cherished today, tomorrow, and forever more.