Fall In Love With Everyone

Recently, I’ve been listening again to Bees and Swans, by Beta Radio. And a line from that song’s been stuck in my head:

I’ve been turning that phrase in my head a lot, lately. And the idea strikes me that the notion of falling in love with everyone you encounter… that’s not a bad way to go about your days.

It’s naive, I recognize. Perhaps impossibly naive, in that it’s not an attainable state. It’s not practical, or pragmatic. But it still strikes me as worthy goal, a worthy way of carrying oneself in the world.

I am getting old. And even before now, before getting old, I’ve been very set in my ways. And the act of encountering something new or different becomes more difficult, the more I’m set in my ways. I like the idea of moving away from my comfort.

Falling love with everyone you encounter. There are worse ways to be.

Related:
Beta Radio: Bees and Swans
My Brightest Diamond: I Have Never Loved Someone
The Hearts We Let Go
A Thousand Abandoned Hearts, Mostly Unbroken, Logan Square