Dear love seeking, love hating, and love soaked,

It seems that the topic of love itself brings up hundreds of questions. What is true love?  How do you know if he really loves you?  Will it last forever?  Can you love more than one person?  How do you know it's really right?  The list goes on and on.  While I can't even attempt to answer all the questions, I can try and shed some light on some of them... mainly those surrounding true love.  Even the name itself...TRUE LOVE...has so many different meanings.  Perhaps that right there is the real magic of love...all its different meanings.  Love comes in so many forms, shapes, sizes, colours, tastes, ideals, and fantasies, it is impossible to narrow it down to one TRUE type.  Even for individuals, what might seem like the real thing now, may pale in comparison to a love found later in one's lifetime.  And face it...With all the immortals, gods, mortals, and funky creatures running around Rhydin nowadays, one lifetime can last thousands of years.  It seems a bit unfair to limit yourself to just one love.  Does that mean that if you fall in love again, one love should be better that the other?  That doesn't seem fair either.  Is the Easter Lily more valued or appreciated than the Winter Mum, becasue it blooms first in the year, or vice versa?  For each individual, it's different.  As I look around at my friends, I see many different types of relationships, and many forms of that elusive one-true-love.  Take Shidi, Herb, and Arc.  There is a threesome more in love than any I have ever seen.  And despite constant kidding and prying from friends and foes alike, they stick together and make it work.  But it didn't happen all at once.  I know that Shidi went through many other marriages before finding her happiness with these two.  But does that mean this love is any less?  I don't think so.  Then look at Terrin and Maeve.  It was first love for them, and through many long disappeances, kidnappings, and impromptu family visits, they are still together.  Even Kalys and Nefir, strange as their relationship may be to the rest of us, it appears to work for them.  As for myself, yes, I have been married once or twice, and thought I had found the one and only love of my life.  But lately I have come to find out that by believing that I really limited myself.  Finding a new love doesn't diminish the love I felt in the past, in fact, they really arent connected at all.  I also found there is no golden rule that says you HAVE to be in love.  Sometimes, its good to just be in love with yourself, and enjoy being alone.  It's all a growing process...or, think of it like a walk in the garden.  Each path takes you to a new and different flower...you can share them with the same person all your life, or sample each one differently and with a whole new attitude.  Either way you choose, just remember to enjoy your self.

Love, Morri