Introspection, Growth, and Acceptance

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I saw a really cool quote today that I think Fig posted on a thread. It got me thinking about something my MIL asked me awhile ago.

She asked me, "Dana, what do you want?"

There are many things I want from my personal life but above all, I wish and want someday to share my life with someone and have a family. Secondly, I wish to give back to society (and I think teaching is one of the greatest ways I can do that). I want to be a wife who respects her husband and is loved back. I know I will find a way to be happy if that doesn't happen, but I certain WANT that from my life and I do think in many ways we do need that as it is what I believe God intended - that we should share our life loving another and helping one another get to heaven. My H and I failed at appreciating what we had, helping each other follow God's word, and loving each other as we needed/wanted. I hope that God will grant me a chance someday to have love in my life and to make a true marriage with another. That is what I want and pray for. I saw this quote and it struck me as what I want someday in a marriage. Love. Real and true love. I am beginning to see that my future could really hold great things and I'm excited to live in my present and hope for the future. Faith.

From "Captain Corelli's Mandolin,
"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew toward each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."