I’m feeling a bit soppy today. I’ve had a cold all week and I tend to get introspective when I am on cold medicine and poor sleep quality. We’ve talked about showing love to others and how we can say we love you in a variety of ways, but I think it’s equally important to answer the question of do you feel loved?
How Do You Feel Loved?
To answer the question of do you feel loved requires understanding how do you feel loved. Now before I confuse anyone, what I mean is that much of what we believe or feel is often colored by our perceptions. What one person may feel as love, another may not share. Feeling loved is extremely important to everyone.
One of the best depictions in film that I have ever seen about feeling loved was demonstrated in the movie Love, Actually. During the narration of the movie, Hugh Grant describes love as something you see in an airport baggage claim area where lovers are reuniting and loved ones are reconnecting either from travels afar or returning home for a visit.
Love is the feeling of the rivers tumbling down over the falls and rushing into the sea. Love is the feeling of the parched earth exploding into bloom when the rain falls from the sky. Love is the feeling of total excitement when your spouse returns from a long trip.
Love is the feeling that everything is a little bit better, the days are a bit crisper, the nights are a bit warmer and the heart is buoyed by their presence. Do you feel this way when you are with the one you love? Do you feel their love making things better for you?
This is how you feel loved.
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