What has happened to real love in the world? Where has the desire to be with a person forever gone to? Everyone nowadays only wants to be with someone until they have had their fill of that person, and then throw them aside unconcerned what repercussions their actions have had on the other individual. Where has the ideals and morals of our humanity gone to? I myself believe so deeply in true love that it has almost become a religion for me. I believe that when I find that person that wants to give their life to me and me to them, that I will look at that woman the same way I did when we first met, regardless of age. I'll be able to look in her eyes and see the same beautiful woman that first stole my heart those many years ago. And it doesn't matter to me how her skin looks or feels, I'll still be holding her hand when we go for walks in our autumn years, and during those walks I'll remember our early life together, and the two times will meld into the present. Because to me, true beauty is forever and is manifested in the heart and lives in the soul. Physical beauty may only last but a minute in the hour that is life, but true inner beauty is eternal. Real beauty comes with unconditional love, it comes with forgiveness, it comes with smiles and frowns, and it comes with endurance for the tough times, because true beauty is not perfect and neither is real love. It would seem that everyone today is looking for perfection in an individual, only to find out rather quickly that there is no perfect. There can only be perfection if you allow it to be perfect for you. I really believe that todays society is engrossed in a selfish lifestyle, quick to lust, slow to forgive, perpetuating the vicious cycle that is vanity. One can only truly love something if they can accept it for what it is. Putting your beliefs into someone or something because it is physically appealing at the moment will only bring more trouble then it is worth in the end. Even with the above said there lays the wild card, Hope. Hope comes in various forms and means and ways. It can sneak its way into our lives in the form of a smile from a stranger, or it can breathe life into us in the form of a heroic act, lastly it can just be there the whole time only to be awakened by someone. There are so many of us that have given up on hope, when it is hope only that we have had all along. Hope for love, hope for triumph, hope for the human spirit. Hope that love wakes up and realizes what they are throwing away........
