Gilbert Blythe...my first Love

Not surprisingly, my first love was a fictional character from the Book series "Anne of Green Gables".  His name was Gilbert Blythe.  Gilbert sort of had a crush on Anne from the time he first met her.  This is a common school-girl fantasy, to have a boy who had known you forever, be in love with you.

I think the reason this appeals to us is because we want to be deeply known and understood.  Our egos crave such attention.  This is why we take the time to ask questions of our potential partners and why we share personal stories with them or create moments to bond.  Friendship is a fine way to discover if you have a karmic connection to someone. 

It is important to know that not ALL karmic connections are good ones.  Some feel good and draw you to someone.  Later you wonder why you were so enamored when you discover they have bad qualities that you are not at all attracted to.  One way to explain this is that your karmic connection was based on karmic debt...one of you owed the other something in a past life. 

Gilbert was a good boy...he antagonized Anne but he admired her.  As their years in the same small town and small schoolhouse went on, they discovered they were similar.  Their similarities began to bond them rather than divide them.  And as adults, not even distance could separate the connection they shared.  In time, they were married.

Yes, I know it is fiction.  But I have known some unique love stories.  I will ask some couples if they will allow me to interview them for the blog so I can share it and we can learn from them.  I have married couple friends who are childhood sweethearts and honestly exude love.  I can think of two couples.  Their stories inspire me and they have taken very different paths.  More on that another time.

Just keep thinking Love-ing thoughts and have faith.