[MissItalianDiva]

I have been on a hiatus from allowing people in my space enough to actually connect and grow....I broke my own heart a couple of years ago when I was too young to really grasp that love is more than the false expectations and hopes I heard as a young girl in story books. A dear friend of mine brought me a quote that hit spot on for me...to the point where I got overwhelmed in the revelation. Not sure if this will mean anything as profound as it did to me to any of you but nevertheless I feel compelled to share.

"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."
-St. Augustine