All You Need is Love

I am blessed to have people in my life that teach me things by just simply existing. Like how to be peaceful, relax, let things come to you. How to take advantage of everyday and try to spend every moment of it doing something that makes you feel amazing. Little messages keep popping up on people, like the random man i saw walking on 34th st the other day with the tattoo that said "Don't Settle". Nothing is a coincidence. Everything is a sign.

So yesterday as usual, i was on the two train with a coworker on the way home. We were talking about a lot of random stuff and somehow landed on the subject of cartoons. We were talking about Avatar The Last Airbender (which i am not completely fluent in yet, but have watched a few eps with a little help from and avid fan). If you dont know it, basically, the characters can bend the elements. So of course because we are on the 2 train, a random man cuts in the conversation talking about how that is his sons favorite show and how amazed he is how cartoons have evolved expressively since the days of Elmer Fud. From dynamite to air-bending. He somehow linked that to Moses parting the sea and the next thing i know, we are being preached to.

He said many things. He wasn't pushy like most 2 train evangelists are. I really wanted to listen and did. You can learn a lot from listening. He said one thing that really stuck with me:

"God gives love and God IS love. Most people don't take the time to wrap their mind around that concept."

My coworker got off at her stop and the man stopped talking to us. The woman across from us started talking to him to. She was also very religious and they had a conversation that i listened in on. They shared their ideas about God and she said something that stuck out to me too:

"Love can get you higher than any drug. A type of euphoria that nothing else compares to."

They both eventually got off the train and said good night to me. I said thank you to them. A few moments later realized that my friend sent me this via a Facebook message:

"Love can make people do strange things, but it can do even stranger things to your brain. Lucy Brown, a professor in the department of neurology and neuroscience at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, found that people's brains were flooded with dopamine -- a neurotransmitter that affects pleasure and motivation -- when they were shown photographs of their lovers. As a result, love seems to trigger the same kind of euphoric effects achieved by certain drugs, including cocaine."

That is no coincidence that he sent that to me at that specific time. Everyone involved was meant to be involved, speak their mind, and share it with me. This year i have questioned love and, i hate to say it, doubted love. And here I am faced with so many signs, voices, faces, moments telling me love is something to believe in. Something to hold on to.

This year i have had the luxury of having one of my goals look me in the face and say, "You have to believe this is possible". I would be a fool not to take that advice.