Dating Outlook

How far would you go for love?

Someone I consider a mentor of mine told me a story last week about how during her move to the opposite coast, she met someone. Someone special. In Montana. On a cattle drive.

It was a whirlwind of a romance. Four days in, he asked her to marry him. Instead, she moved in to see if they could give it a real shot. For the better part of a year, they lived together. Time after time again he would ask her to marry him.

Finally, she blew up and told him not to ask ever again, or she would leave. Months passed and she began to really entertain the idea of possibly marrying him. That was when she began to realize she couldn’t. Once it became clear to her that she couldn’t and wouldn’t, she did leave.

I love this story and I admire her for the simple fact that she took an unbelievable leap of faith. She took a chance. When many of her close friends may have been questioning her sanity, she was merely not passing up the chance to have true love. I wonder what opportunities we pass up because we let things like “rational� thinking or “logic� get involved. In my opinion, rationality is a false sense of balance or what is “normal.� And, well, logic has no place in love.

How far would you go for love? Would you give love enough of a chance that you would just put your dreams, your plans or your life on hold?

I hope I do.