This picture has become my answer of choice for many questions. For instance, "Why did I eat a Hershey Bar today after a very nutritious breakfast of left-over pizza? The answer: The stomach heart wants what the stomach heart wants.
After pondering over this bit of wisdom, I started to get some frightening (or brilliant?) ideas. Example: My heart needs exercise...but is that what it wants? Or: My heart probably needs a low-fat, healthy diet...but I can guarantee you that is definitely NOT what it wants.
Need and Want. Two four-letter words. Two very different meanings. As I get older, the lines between needing and wanting have become much less blurry. But actually acknowledging that I only want those new teal pastel pumps and not that I literally have no other shoes to wear unless I bought the teal pastel pumps is where the lines start to blur.
I can easily name five things that I want right now that I don't need. Or I can remember a moment when I wanted something so bad that all I could think about was that slice of cake/that dress/that running gear until I thought I was going to go crazy without it. And then a day passed. Two days passed. I forgot all about the cake/dress/running gear. Because it was a want. Not a need.
Although my heart (and head) has had its fair share of wants, the things that really feed it and make it grow are the needs - the things that are a little more challenging to obtain. My heart needs love. My heart needs patience. My heart needs thoughtfulness. My heart needs comfort. My heart needs laughter.
What can I say? The heart needs what the heart needs.
Beautiful and inspiring- we all need a little perspective sometimes and this surely offered that for me. I am so lucky to have you as my friend, my heart definitely NEEDS friendship and we have one of the strongest, of that I am sure :-)
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