Love Is In The Air Print

the story

The billowing steam represents the way most of our society views love. It is a little mysterious, always changing, and dependent on which way the wind is blowing. Love is regarded as a fleeting feeling evident on a wedding day but which vanishes at some point in the ensuring years when life gets hard.

But the bison is the better metaphor for true love in this painting. The bison is rock solid. Grounded. Immovable in winds of change.

True love is not a feeling that that ebbs and flows with the wind. True love isn’t a feeling; it’s a choice. 

If you are in a relationship where the love feels like it’s fading, are you like the steam cloud, waiting for something to happen? Are you waiting for a feeling to return or for your partner to change, to do something that rekindles that loving feeling you once had?

The better strategy is to be more like the bison and make the first move. It’s amazing how often our loving actions can transform into loving feelings. Before you throw in the towel on a relationship that has lost its loving feeling, act in a loving way toward your partner. Decide that you’re not going anywhere, like a bison standing in the middle of the road at Yellowstone. Don’t give up.

Change may not be immediate, but if you are persistent and continue acting in love, don’t be surprised if before long, a new feeling of love is in the air.