How often do the simplest things offer the deepest life lessons? Today, I stumbled upon a beautifully written piece that resonated with me profoundly. It speaks to something we all know, yet rarely truly embody. I was so moved by its simplicity and depth that I wanted to share it with you all.
You know, we all want love, but here’s the thing: love plays by two rules that we can’t escape. First, it can’t be conquered. No matter how hard we try to define it, chase it, or control it, we will never fully figure out what love is. It’s just out of our reach, and the more we try to claim it, the further it seems to slip away. But then there’s the other rule: love conquers everything. No matter how elusive it may be, it has a way of winning—of touching us, changing us, making its presence known. It’s powerful like that.
And that’s the paradox. We’re aware of both rules: that we’ll never fully know love, and yet we’ll always be looking for it. We keep searching, even though we know it’s something we can’t own. So, where does love hide? If it can’t be conquered, and we keep seeking it, it has to hide somewhere we least expect, right? What better place to hide than in plain sight, where we never thought to look?
That’s where memory comes in. Memory serves us like a map. It reminds us of those fleeting moments we didn’t appreciate when they were happening. Those small instances, those plain moments we brushed off as nothing, turn out to be where love was all along. We were too distracted, too busy, or too focused on the “big things” to notice it, but love was there—next to us, waiting patiently for us to realize it.
And that’s the thing—love hides in the mundane, in the uninspiring, in the places we would never think to look. It’s not in some grand, life-changing moment. It’s in the everyday. It’s in the small, unsophisticated moments that we overlook because we think they don’t matter. But in those moments, love was right there in front of us all along, and we missed it.
So, the truth is that love isn’t something we have to go looking for in some distant future or grand idea. It’s in the present. Right here, right now. We’re surrounded by love every single day of our lives; it’s hidden in the ordinary. And maybe, just maybe, we’ll see it the next time we stop and look closely at the world around us.
We can only experience love through action an action that does not come from memory and does not register in memory.
Authorship unknown. Shared for its insightful message.
