“What can you do to promote peace in the world? Go home and love your family.”
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

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Friday means Weekend Experience and, as usual, @galenkp wanted to surpass himself by giving away some wonderful suggestions; I was undecided for a while but then I told myself that I can't not write about Love!

I am an incurable romantic and I love to love!

I'm a person who puts love in everything he does and in every situation in life and tries to give as much as possible, I think it's one of the ways to make the world a better place and then it's something that makes me feel good.

Naturally today I want to talk to you about the Love for my wife Reny and how she changed my life making it amazing and more special than it already was.

I believe that every life is already special and worth living to the last drop.

I won't tell you the story of how my wife and I met and how we ended up together also because you already know her having dealt with her in the past.
I want to talk to you in general about our feeling and what she gives me every day.

Let's start from the assumption that, apart from my parents, I have never received a greater love than the one Reny gives me and in any case they are two different types of love; it's a tough challenge only with Marley and I want to end it on an equal footing because all three of us are a family, indeed all five of us considering the kittens too... and we'll soon become six, what a beautiful thing!

Until the day my wife and I met again, I didn't feel fully understood, which no longer happens today because no one knows and understands me better than her; we don't need words we understand each other even with a simple look and in silences.
She knows how to make me smile, how to cheer me up when something is wrong and how to push me to always do better.

She supports me in everything I do and supports me; I believe that all this can be summed up in a single word "fullness".

Yes, because since Reny and I have been together I finally feel complete.

The love I feel for her is really immense, I don't think that love should be measured; I know if I had to choose between my life and hers I would shut down with a smile on my face knowing she's fine.
For me she comes first; I am a very busy and busy person, I work a lot and have many interests but, however important everything is, everything is put in second place to her.
Also I try to do my best and make the best version of me not only for myself but for us and I think this pushes me to go further and push my limits.

There are so many beautiful things in the world but, the way I think, everything becomes even more beautiful when you share it with the person you love.

I guess you didn't really know what true, pure, sincere love was before I met her; I'm not saying that I hadn't known him in other forms and in other ways, but what Reny gives me every day is for me "the definitive version of love between a man and a woman".
I am also a very lucky person because soon I will experience and understand what the love of two parents towards a child is, what more could I ask for?

As far as past experiences are concerned, I can say that I have had many and that I have not missed anything; I laughed and cried, I enjoyed myself and was bored or loved and I realize that I've never really been able to hate anyone and this comforts me because it means a lot to me.

I have always been true to myself and my principles and I am proud of it.

I can't deny that in the past love has hurt me but, in my opinion, what I am today is also given by past experiences; Today's Antonio is the sum of many Antonios that have followed one another over the years, each year a slightly better model (right now I feel a bit like a smartphone heh heh!).
Despite everything, even when love hurt me, I never stopped loving and today, if I had to give someone advice, I'd tell them to do the same and, if I met the me of the past, I'd pat them on the back. and I'd tell him: "You were good!".
If I had stopped loving today I would not have arrived at Reny, my life partner, my best friend, my one true great love.
Why then should one stop feeling a feeling as beautiful and pure as love after one has suffered for it; sometimes we eat tons of vegemite enough to give us indigestion, but once we get better, don't we stop eating it? In fact, we eat even more (I'm addicted to love and Vegemite!).

Of course, after having suffered a beating we need some time to recover and it is right and wise to give it to ourselves, but then, we can start loving again more than before just as after indigestion we eat pasta for a couple of days and then start again to eat regularly after we recover.

If they had asked me to give a definition of love up until a while ago I wouldn't have been able to answer, but today I answer Reny with certainty and decision.
Then I don't think it's necessary to define a feeling like love, I think it's necessary simply to embrace it and live it as some do with faith.
I've never been strong in religion and I've always had so many doubts and uncertainties that I still carry with me today, but in Love, the one with a capital A, I've always believed; If someone asked me which god do you believe in, I would answer: I believe in love that defeats all evil.

I wanted to open this post with a phrase from Mother Teresa of Calcutta, to whom I am very attached, it was she who took Reny in her arms for the first time in the orphanage and, after all, it is thanks to her that today my wife and I are Together.
And thinking of Mother Teresa and her example, if you ask me how do I understand that the love I feel for my wife is true, I tell you it is because for me it is not important to receive and have, when it comes to Reny I am interested give and give her all of myself; there is no mine and yours but ours; there is no You or I, there is a Us, the one that gave birth to our family which will soon expand and become an even bigger Us.

Thank you Reny, my great love, because you exist and for all that you are and that you represent to me.
And thank you Mother Teresa because you were the mother of so many children who weren't lucky enough to have a mother and because you gave each of these children a family and thank you because you gave great love and our family to Reny and me.

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Well now I conclude, when it comes to beautiful things like Love I would never stop but I don't want to bore you and then I know it's not easy to keep up with my little head, my thoughts and my feelings eh eh!
Thanks also to you who have come this far and who, even just reading these posts, give me some of your time and a lot of happiness, it's important to me!
Express your every idea and thought in the comments below if you like.

Hug you!

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Brave heart and gentle tongue will take you far into the jungle...

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English is not my first language but I try, please forgive any errors.