Dating : Everything is Closed, but The Love Factory Is Open

The Love factory remains open. It does not have an alternative operating schedule. It won’t be opening later, closing earlier, and hasn’t boarded its doors. It’s open and operating at its full capacity around the clock.

Love is the only sure thing we have right now. It’s all we can count on. That makes now the most inopportune time to give up on love. Putting love on the back burner for brighter days and clouds full of certainty is surely giving up on love. There is no reason to put it off for better days. You have had better days and failed to seize them along with their opportunities to find and give love.

Today, along with the collective crisis we face as humans, you are battling your own unique set of adversities both large and small. These adversities and the larger crisis at hand make today, the day to find the love you not only need but also deserve.

Yet, I felt excited for the love that will be born from this pause. The only constant that seems to remain is love. Its the one staple of our life that shall remain

Love is more than the romance at the height of the ride that is life. Love is also the shelter and warmth that make you realize amid the most shuttering of times that all that is important shall remain. It is a reminder that regardless of the altered landscape that will conclude these times, when the dust settles, and it will, there will be love. Love is the sum of all things important. Love is the reason for everything.

You have had your moments of panic about the state of your job, finances, and life as you knew it. As have we all. The panic derives from concern for our ability to sustain the life we love, provide for the people we love that are in our present, and for the people we dream of loving that are in our future. Yet again, the answer remains love.

Love is also the shelter and warmth that make you realize amid the most shuttering of times that all that is important shall remain.

Today you should love without ceasing. You should search high and low for what is your right, to love and be loved. You can’t expect the tales of yesteryear to hold true for you. The stories of love magically appearing on your doorstep will not likely apply. You should become the Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks of 2020 in You’ve Got Mail. Find your love, nurture your love, and create your own fairy tale.

Search for the love that is yours. It is there, they are home and are too longing for the things you long for. Out of the sheer vulnerability that is now, in your sharing, and empathizing you might be able to create one of the greatest love stories of all time. Imagine telling your grandchildren how you “penned” virtual messages to one another before ever meeting. Imagine their eyes as you describe how you connected so deeply before even having set eyes on one another in real-time.

You should unequivocally and unapologetically put yourself on the market. You, with all your imperfections. You, with all your current life instabilities. You, without a plan. You, yes you. Do it.