The Many Different Ways We Can Say ‘I Love You’

There is a story that I think will help get my point across in the best way possible.

One gentleman that comes to mind always had a habit of leaving notes around his house for his wife.  I mean they were nothing amazing just a few special words, usually jotted down quickly on a sticky note.  Every so often his wife would find these notes around her house.  Everywhere she looked, from on the mirror when she got out of the shower in the morning, to in her dogs food dish when she would go to feed him.  He made a point of telling her in a special way how much he loves her.

This man was in the army, and so when he was killed in Iraq shortly after he got there, his wife was devastated.   When she was on her way out the door for his funeral, dressed up and wearing her winter coat, she discovered two notes in each of her pockets.  The first one read, ‘I love you’, and the second one read ‘forever’.  She cried, but then she stopped and realized that even death could not destroy what they had.  He was with her then, and he always would be.  She wondered if he knew when she would find them, and he knew she never wore that coat.

I do not know if he was anticipating that something would happen to him, but I do know that he made sure that his wife knew how much he loved her.  There was never a doubt in her mind.  Sometimes over the course of a relationship we forget that we need to remind the people around us that we love them.  Especially because we do not know what life has in store for us.  We have to make this effort not only to our partners, but for everyone that we love in our lives.  With our busy days, and our hard times it is easy to forget to do this.

By love, I mean anyone that you love.  Your parents, your children, and your friends.  We have the tendancy to take these people for granted, but what happens when they leave us forever.  So take this opportunity to tell somone how much you love them, and how much they mean to you.  There is no definition of love, but no one understands that love is a job that has to have hard work put into it.  Love can be a thank-you, a memory, a smile, or a kiss.  It is many things, and comes in millions of shapes and sizes.   This leaves us with milions of ways to say ‘I love you’ to someone.  You could become a mentor, or a big brother or sister.  Do some volunteer work for the homeless, or sick.  Visit an elderly person that is lonely, or walk for a charity cause.  These things are all ways of saying that you love the people in your life.

Show your appreciation to everyone in your life, and even people who are not.  We wonder why our society is filled with hatred and crime, but only we have the cure to the things that destroy us.