Leap of Heart

Sunday, November 17, 2013

It’s interesting how Jeanette Winterson explains how falling in love is like jumping off your own private planet to visit someone else’s. In every single way I agree with this seemingly brilliant author.

After each fall, I realize it more and more that I want to take everything I love about my own private planet to that new planet I will visit; that if I should take the jump, I want to carry my big backpack where I put my music and Friends and TV series collection, my philosophy and articles and Paulo Coelho novels and The Little Prince, my poems and enthusiasm for photography, my invisible badge of earth and animal defender, AND Kayla; and I want to share all those things with this person. It’s fun to think that this person may also be interested in everything I have in my backpack. But it’s also tough, knowing that there is a possibility that we meet halfway and I show him what’s in my backpack and he shows me what’s in his and we find out that we love different things, and that I will have to pack up and defy gravity to find my way back to my own private planet, which then will seem so small and lonely.

It’s never easy falling in love – Winterson even mentioned in postscript that we have to be really really brave to take the jump to the other planet. But if there’s another thing I realize after each fall, is the fact that I’ve always been able to finally find my way back to my own private planet, and that it’s not small and lonely at all– in fact, I bring back some poems and more enthusiasm for life as souvenir – and even better, that I’m just one jump closer to get to the right planet.

So, to falling in love and this new jump I’m taking,

PS: here's the link to the inspiring article: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/11/05/big-questions-from-little-people/