Love?

What is Love?

Is it the emotion you have for a partner? Is it the emotion you feel for your child? Or your mom or dad?

Who knows what love really is? What I can probably explain to you is, how it feels. When I get to see my daughter and spend time with her, whether it be when we're going over her homework, studying her vocabulary words for the week, or playing "hide and go seek", I can tell you that there's a warm kind of feeling I get that allows me to be as calm as I've ever been.

The feeling of being content may be different to many people, but it's how I feel when I am around her. When I'm in bed and she's playing with her toys and just being happy for such simple things such as a doll, and she role plays with her toys, it's music to my ears. I get drowsy and sleepy, and the urge of wanting to sleep nearly overcomes me.

The type of love for your child is an incredibly powerful type of love that I think is different from the one of a partner. With a partner, you have to first establish that rapport and get to know one another over time and take that chance of some day being able to trust and love them. Hoping you really ever know them. With a child, you know it's yours, you know there's that innocence that just can't be erased.

You know that when your child says "I Love you, Daddy" or "I Love you, Mommy", that it's real and it's sincere, and it comes from the most innocent and squeaky clean place of that child.

You know it's funny, this past Friday was my angel's graduation. I could not be any happier. She graduated from Kindergarten. Dressed in a beautiful floral dress that her mom had her pick out of a number of other dresses. She did not want to graduate. She was in love with her teacher and talked about how much she loved her every day and did not want to leave school. She's not the type of student who wants to come home. She wants to learn more and more with each day that passes.

Anyway, her class sang 7 songs after a prayer and the pledge of allegiance. It's funny how I still remember the pledge of allegiance to this day and how it's second-hand nature to me. I suppose all those times in third grade saying it simply stuck to me. It was absolutely joyful. She and I celebrated the weekend with family good times.

They say that during these years are when the most enjoyable times are with your child. I must say, while it has just been her and me for almost a year now since her mother left us, I have not been any happier in my life. Each minute, hour, day, the week that passes with every time being spent with my little one is absolutely a blessing. I could not ask for more.

Perhaps I'm just rambling on today, and this is probably not the time to do this, but I'd hope that many people feel this way about their love of their lives. It's taken me quite the while to find out what Love is to me. It wasn't since my wife left me and our family when I really found out that unconditional love is something of what a child has.

A love that you just can't help but to want to be all around every day of your life. It's a great feeling to have and, even more, moment to experience. I'd love to hear what Love means to you.

Thanks,

The single dad!