Moonshadow

The moon was so bright today that it cast a shadow on the ground while I was walking. A moon shadow. Of course that song got stuck in my head. Moonshadow, moonshadow... something something, doo doo doo. Cat Stevens. Anyway, I was walking under that moon thinking about love.

Love is crazy. Love is one of the best things there is. Sometimes you love someone and you can see exactly where something is headed. You can see the little things they could do differently, the little bit of preparation that might save them trouble later. Save a little money. Pay a little more attention. Get ready before the storm gets there. Nothing dramatic. Just small things that could keep the whole ship steady.

And sometimes you don't say anything. Not because you don't care. Almost the opposite. You care so much that you don't want your love to turn into a list of corrections. You don't want to become the person standing beside them saying, I told you so, or you should've done this, or why didn't you do that? Nobody wants to be loved like they're a project that needs fixing. The point is that sometimes you can see the thing coming a long way off, and you still have to decide what matters more. Being right or being beside someone.

Obviously there are limits. You can't follow somebody into something that destroys you. Love shouldn't require that. But regular life is full of smaller mistakes, bad timing, things that could've been handled better. And sometimes love means allowing another person to be a person instead of constantly trying to manage their life.

Sometimes, dude, love is Thelma & Louise. You know where this thing might be headed, but you're still sitting beside them. You reach over and take their hand. And off the Cliff we go.  I  know there are people I would rather hold hands with through the mess than spend my life explaining all the ways they could've avoided it. I don't need them to do everything right. I don't need to correct every mistake. I want them to be happy. I want to be beside them. Love can get you in a bind. You have to be careful with it. Still, I love it.

I love her.☮︎♡⃛