Sunday, August 1, 2010

Show Me Love

I know that everyone is different. Different people express things in different ways. While I can appreciate that in an abstract nature (as a concept), I have a very hard time seeing it in practice.

I am very expressive when it comes to love/affection/emotion of any kind. I am all for hugs, tears, rants, and raves. I have no problem hugging people hello and goodbye, or telling my friends and family that I love them.

Not everyone expresses love that way. Being the neurotic person I am, together with everyone in my family being like me, and a large part of the people in my husband's family being like me, and most of my friends being like me, I have a hard time recognizing love or friendship if it's not shown the way I'm used to seeing it. If people don't act the way I would act then obviously we're not really friends.

Yes, I know, that makes NO SENSE AT ALL.

Well guess what. I'm wrong. And now, I'm a convert. It's been years, but now, I can see love in another way. Actions may actually speak louder, or if not louder, at least equally as loud, as words. Who knew?

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