love endlessly. | this wild adventure

This week I was looking back some of my personal writing (thanks to Evernote, I’ve got a journal on me pretty much all the time) and stumbled across an entry from 2009, written after going to my first live Jazz concert in downtown Columbus.

“the entire evening was based on the driving force of jazz; love. We all seek it. We write poems about it. It’s the only time we ever really desire to ‘fall’. We fantasize of it, live for it, and can even die from it. It’s a universal language that needs no translation.”

I did a search through all of my notebooks to see just how often love comes up. Go through a women’s journal and you expect to see the word more times than you count, complimented by hearts and XOXO’s. But to my own surprise, there is quite the presence even in a man’s writing. 31 of my 88 notes featuring “love” at least once. It ranges from spiritual thoughts, relationships, and some of my personal likings in food, drink, music, and sports. My thoughts and mentions of love were all over the map. Here are just a few, for example:

1…some of the greatest people changing the world are my friends David and Lauren with The Love Alliance

2. If your consumers love your product, they are going to keep coming back for more and continue telling others about it.

3. From that I would love to establish a community of creatives passionate about their purpose.

4.Is your love really love? Is my love really love? I think our love isn’t love unless it’s love till the end”- As Cities Burn

5. Mikey’s Late Night Slice. Plain and simple. I love their pizza.

As you can see, my use of the word love ranges from life-long aspirations to my meals. The way that we use love is pretty broad, but for many people love is a word that is not tossed around lightly. In the holiday season, it seems only right to consider and express what we love and are thankful for. Here’s just a few of those things:

I love that I spent 4 years at MVNU and established myself in a community of believers, dreamers, brothers and sisters.

I love my job. Campus MovieFest came into my life thanks to a Mashable job board posting. I’ve been with CMF for 5 months and have grown in my leadership, decision-making, and professional adventures. Beyond that, I’ve learned about life on the road, in a unique environment in which you work, eat, drink, sleep, and more with the same 4 people for over 4 months.

I love the ways that my family has been blessed this year. My mom’s home business, Pretzelady, is growing rapidly, so fast that we can hardly keep cafes and shelves stocked. She’s got an incredible talent, and the ability to share that with the world is such a blessing.

Love tenderly. Forgive endlessly. Live for a great purpose.

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