Romance

Have you ever met someone and you just... knew?

They aren't from around here. It's like.... the world--and all of it's worries

Just wash over them. Like somehow what they believe is enough.

I want to be one of them. So badly.

There is romance in this world--I know it! It's hiding in plain site, covered by tacky posters and false promises.

And not just romance...the kind you read in a book, or see in a movie. It's a way of LOOKING at the world

SEEING what everyone else seems to have....missed.

Like indie music. I admit, it's an addiction.

To me there is so much RAW talent packed in, so much heart--a unique heart-- that the world dismisses it as merely "out of touch".

But I have never experienced something so IN TOUCH. So ALIVE.

"Open your window and look upon all the kinds of alive you can be." - the Weepies

How beautiful. Every time I hear that, my heart wants to burst and I understand. I want to be ALIVE.

That's it.

ALIVE.

There is a world out there that is so suffocated inside of their crazy, hectic lives...

They are positive that they know everything that is to be known.

I have never met anyone so ignorant in all my life.

Romance IS....

To take every thing that comes your way--be it life or death, trial or triumph--and turn it into pure joy!

To seize the day-- CARPE DIEM-- (I love that!)

To not allow life to get in your way but rather LIVE it.

To not be brought down. I want that. I want to search out the romance in my life, and to live with JOY.