Friday, August 26, 2005

• Relationships...  Love...  What matters to you?

  I stole this from the comment that max made to somebody asking about whether or not she should pursue a difficult relationship:  "my ideal for a relationship is someone that challenges me about everything including my faith."

  Then there's a bit from Anne of Avonlea, Chapter 19:

  >>Gilbert stretched himself out on the ferns beside the Bubble and looked approvingly at Anne. If Gilbert had been asked to describe his ideal woman the description would have answered point for point to Anne, even to those seven tiny freckles whose obnoxious presence still continued to vex her soul. Gilbert was as yet little more than a boy; but a boy has his dreams as have others, and in Gilbert's future there was always a girl with big, limpid gray eyes, and a face as fine and delicate as a flower. He had made up his mind, also, that his future must be worthy of its goddess. Even in quiet Avonlea there were temptations to be met and faced. White Sands youth were a rather "fast" set, and Gilbert was popular wherever he went. But he meant to keep himself worthy of Anne's friendship and perhaps some distant day her love; and he watched over word and thought and deed as jealously as if her clear eyes were to pass in judgment on it. She held over him the unconscious influence that every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence which would endure as long as she was faithful to those ideals and which she would as certainly lose if she were ever false to them. In Gilbert's eyes Anne's greatest charm was the fact that she never stooped to the petty practices of so many of the Avonlea girls -- the small jealousies, the little deceits and rivalries, the palpable bids for favor. Anne held herself apart from all this, not consciously or of design, but simply because anything of the sort was utterly foreign to her transparent, impulsive nature, crystal clear in its motives and aspirations. <<

  I agree wholeheartedly with maxithousand, as I tend to do eventually on such matters, and as a young girl, Anne and Gilbert were to me the ideal and epitome of happiness.  What are your thoughts?  Your dreams?  Your reality?  What do you desire in a relationship?  What makes relationships work?

  Thanks, friends!  Happy weekend!!

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