Everybody Needs a Good Love Story

While watching Scott Pilgrim vs. The World I found myself thinking about how everyone needs a good love story. It's an unlikely source of revelation, but you get it where you can. Everybody needs a good love story. Two of my favorite authors, Miller and Eldrige, write about the need for adventure, the need for a story, and the need for love. This is in keeping with that theme.

People need to have something they're passionate about. People need a calling, an adventure, something they can spend their lives chasing after and feel no shame about at the end. People need love in their lives. I've found that typically love will assist us in finding that story that we want to live.

Love can make a man better. The men I know that are and have been in love have striven to do better than they ever would've on their own. Men want to provide for the one that has captured his heart. Men want to be that woman's hero. Men want to be that woman's knight. If a man finds himself in a relationship that does not motivate him to desire more, I would argue that man's not in love.

Love in and of itself is transforming. At least it should be. I can not see how two people can be connected in such a way that their hearts are intertwined together and yet remain unchanged. There should be a transfer of a spiritual nature that leaves the residue of one another imprinted upon the very core of the two. There is a saying that says, "if you want to serve Jesus remain single. If you want to be like Jesus get married." The interaction of two people is transforming.

Men and women alike should not have to be forced to serve and provide for the needs of one another in such relationships. Instead, they should do so willingly and with great passion. Counting it an honor to meet the needs of the one they love. This should not be dutiful, but joyful. This should not be a strain on life, but life inspiring.

The chase of each others hearts should not end with engagement, marriage, or even children. It is a chase that should last for life of the relationship with many twist and turns of adventure as you delve more deeply into the one you love. This is your love story. There will be an ongoing battle to keep the spark alive. There will be a battle to protect the heart of the beloved. There will be an ongoing battle to capture the imagination of one you have counted above all others.

This is what a good love story is about. It's about discovery and rediscovery. It's about exploration of the soul of another. It's about a journey into the mind and body. It's not a fairy tale. It's a reality. People are simple yet profound beings. We need not get stuck on the simplicity and find ourselves bored. We should instead seek to find a level of intimacy that goes beyond mere sexual activity or the knowing of one's favorite color. We should know each others dreams, fears, pains, pleasures, prayers, and aspirations.

I find the chase for one's heart to be very exciting. It's even greater when you have caught one of whom you are in pursuit of. Most people think this is the end of the journey. However, we are ever growing and changing beings. The place where we found the heart on this day may be only a footprint of the hearts being tomorrow. Therefore, continue to chase, continue to track, continue to seek to tame the heart. Continue to live a good love story.