WEDNESDAY: IS IT ENOUGH?

I saw a sentimental cartoon on Facebook, talking about Love. It said in part, "The best place[s] to be . . . is in someone's heart." Hmmm . . . Since I often now view the world through the rose-colored glasses of a romance writer, my mind thought, "Is that really enough?"

I don't mean to belittle the sentiment, far from it. I believe it the words contained in that cartoon: love is a wonderful, powerful thing (it doesn't hurt that the drawing included some of my favorite comic characters). But here's my point.

The motivation for the characters in my "second chance romances" is mainly that being in someone's heart, wherever they are, is NOT enough. Being in their LIFE is what they crave, what's missing in their own lives, even after decades. 

Perhaps it's not very mature or rational behavior to miss some so strongly after they're gone from your life completely for decades. But as I say in my first novel, Return to Rainbow Ridge, "I speak of love, not logic."  This is more about what happens in your heart, not your head. 

Those two, you're heart and head, seem to be at odds at times, pulling you seemingly in opposite directions. Your head says, "This doesn't make sense," while your heart says, "I don't care! I want what I need!"

But I think they work in collaboration more than we imagine. They are two of the elements that make up our entity as humans. It is the totality, the synergy of the head, heart, body, and spirit that works together to make up "me." So it's difficult to separate the heart and head when it come to what we end up doing. 

In the final analysis, perhaps it is that "I don't care, I need her!" attitude, that feeling that seems to fly in the face of sense and logic, that tells us she is "the one."  Whether anything comes of it—that is an different story. And I plan to write them.