Why is love, good love, GREAT love, hard to come by?

When you're younger the word "love" is much easier to grasp, to swallow. It's what you say to your parents everyday when you leave the house or hang up the phone. You say out loud "I love him!" when watching a cute movie. But why is when you get older, the word becomes a different meaning and in so many ways, or does it really? As growing up as a girl, we are brought up with this "Cinderella" syndrome. We grow up to think that when we become a woman, that we will find love, the love of our life, perhaps our soul mate. We will get married and live happily ever after (Doesn't sound like your typical Cali Story). They say that Cinderella is proof that a pair of shoes can change your life, will it? You date all these guys, these guys that teach you about yourself, they break your heart and make you stronger, sometimes stronger than you ever imagined you could be. You bounce back, and its back to "girls nights, " dancing, laughing, flirting, and then again another guy comes along. So we go through these motions time after time, but no matter what has happened or how much we have been hurt, or what hurt we may have caused to guys, in the end we are still looking for the same thing we have grown up to search for. My dad always says "Steph, when you least expect it, you'll find love" and you know you have all heard that over and over. But what I'm starting to realize is even in those unexpected times, you can't think that just because you met this guy and it was unexpected, that maybe this is the ONE. I think that we girls would be better off if we were told while growing up, that love is priceless, however relationships can be hard work. So when you are ready to put in some time and perhaps some hard work, then make yourself available to finding love. Finding a person that you can share your hopes and dreams with, someone that you can laugh with, someone that will fall in love with you...has to be with someone that is going to allow you to love them back! Now I don't remember reading any books, watching any movies, or being told that that one of the hardest obstacles you might have to go through when finding love is that the guy might have some hang ups and will have a hard time allowing you to love him. I never thought about some people having a hard time being loved, like really loved. I wear my heart on my sleeve, and it's true I totally do, but it's also true that I would rather open my heart to possible love then to hold it captive and locked up, watching time pass you by. Since I lost my mom at a young age, I always love the people in my life as much as I possibly can because life is too short and you never know when someone may be taken from you. I think that is why I am the way I am today. I love to love, it's easy for me. Don't get me wrong, I don't pass out my love like candy, but if you can love me at my worst, then to me you are pretty awesome, you deserve me at my best, and I will love you! Timing is everything, and love always finds it's way, so long as you're open to it (and don't give up)!
xoxo
♥♥ Best Movie Love Quotes ♥♥:

“You had me at Hello” – Jerry McQuire

“The best kind of love is the kind that awakens the soul, makes us reach for more, plants a fire in our hearts… and brings peace to our minds” – The Notebook

“If I tell you I love you, can I keep you forever?” – Casper

“Life is not the amount of breaths you take, It’s the moments that take your breath away” - Hitch

“If you love someone you say it… You say it right then, out loud… Or the moment just… passes you by.”– My Best Friends Wedding

“Take love, multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever…And you still have only a glimpse of how I feel for you”- Meet Joe Black

“I would rather have had One breath of her hair, One kiss of her mouth, One touch of her hand, Than eternity without it” – City of Angels

“I wanna grow old with you” – Wedding Singer

“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody…You want the rest of your life, to start as soon as possible” – When Harry Met Sally

“I think I’d miss you even if we’d never met.”– The wedding date

“You jump, I jump, remember? I can’t turn away without knowing you’ll be alright” – Titanic

“Fate exists but it can only take you so far, Because once you’re there It’s up to you to make it happen.”– Can’t Hardly Wait

“Do you ever put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well that’s what love is like. Everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but you just keep going” – Practical Magic

“That’s why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they’d call them something else” – Sixteen Candles

“School is still the same…there’s still that one guy that you get up and go to school for in the morning. The one with the mysterious confidence that every girl falls for. Those years of school would’t have been the same without them. I would’t have been the same without them” - Never Been Kissed

“You are what I never knew I always wanted” – Fools Rush In

“There are millions of people in this world, but in the end it all comes down to One” – Crazy/Beautiful

“Kiss me. Kiss me, as if it were the last time” – Casablanca

“I’ve kissed a guy..I’ve kissed guys. I just haven’t felt that thing… that thing… That moment you know, that moment when you kiss someone and everything around you becomes hazy..And the only thing in focus is you and that person. And you realize that that person is the only person that you’re supposed to kiss for the rest of your life. And for one moment you get this gift…And you want to laugh and you want to cry because you feel so lucky that you found it and so scared that it will go away all at the same time” – Never Been Kissed

“Don’t forget, I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, Asking him to love her”- Knotting Hill