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An old saying regarding love goes like this: “If you love something set it free, if it comes back to you it’s yours, if it doesn’t it wasn’t meant to be.” While there is wisdom in those words sometimes the difficulty involved weighs your heart down. This story demonstrates the power of those words and I thought I would share this story with you.

I read an article this morning that kind of touched by heart. After sixteen years, two people where reunited in a love that lasted through time. As a foreign exchange student in southwest England, Carmen Ruiz-Perez met and fell in love with Steven Smith. After a year-long relationship, they became engaged.

Life happened and Carmen ended up moving to France and the relationship ended. Steve never forgot the love they shared though and a few years later he attempted to contact her by mail through her mother’s address in Spain. Carmen was not at home at the time and her mother placed the letter on the mantle and apparently forgot about it.

Time passed, the letter slipped behind the fireplace and life went on. Eventually, builders who were removing the fireplace located the missing letter over a decade later and it was put into the hands of Carmen.

Steve had reached out to her all those years ago and she had missed the call, or so she must have thought after reading the letter. She wanted to call him right away, but she felt too nervous. Curiosity I image made her know deep down that she would make that call soon; and she did.

They scheduled a meeting, Steve and Carmen, and Steve describes the meeting in terms of, it was as if time had stood still. Running across the airport and landing in each other’s arms, looking into each other’s eyes and kissing as though sixteen years had not passed by. They are now a married couple living the life they had planned, all those years ago.

Love makes you weak in the knees, gives you palpitations of the heart and makes life so much more worth living. True love never dies or so they say; true love, a connection of two souls combining into one spirit; pretty heady stuff. Some people go through life without one true love while others seem to find “many,” – is this a case of “love the one you’re with?” This story seems to imply that if it was meant to be time takes care of it and it will be. Still in some cultures marriage is arranged and love comes later.

Whatever the case for you, once you find love, cherish it and through the good and the bad remember love and the capacity to love, on any level, is a gift; be aware also before you “chase” that love away that another saying goes “you never miss a good thing until it’s gone!”

And that’s the way I see it!!!

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