Monday, July 26, 2010

Lust is exciting, love is scary

Lust is incredibly easy and even more powerful.
We are excited by the draw of another person, the desire to connect with that person on the physical level. The connection provides us with pleasure or it doesn't, leaves our bodies satisfied or unsatisfied, and sometimes paints the illusion of something deeper.
Can love be produced from lust?
Lust can produce the feeling of something new and exciting, especially when change is needed in a person's life. But it can't produce love.
Love is incredibly difficult and even more powerful.
It is romanticized as a feeling of attraction toward someone, or material things, or even simply lust.
But is that all it is? Why is it that sex seems so easy to some of us with people we may not even know, yet loving someone we've known is so much more difficult?
Because love is scary, when it is real love. We fear the worst when it comes to letting people inside. We fear rejection, letdown, betrayal...
We don't have to fear these things when it comes to lust. But when our lust for a person (or even a thing such as power or money) is fulfilled, what is left?
Anyone has the ability to lust after another. But love is not for the faint of heart.
Use the word wisely.

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