“Love isn't finding someone you can live with; it's finding someone you can't live without” ~ Unknown

This at first may seem like a very romantic, ideal, and limiting statement and it is, but to me this means so much more.  When I first read this quote, I too thought it probably meant to find that one person in your life, you know a spouse, significant other, soul mate you can't live without, right!?  And It does mean that on one level, but to me again, that is a very limited, narrow and to be honest, frightening at times way of looking at it! : D  

I mean don't get me wrong, I love my significant other/wife and would die for her and probably can't live without her I don't think!? : )  But on a much deeper, broader, greater sense, this quote to me doesn't just include your spouse, significant other, partner, etc... it includes all the people in your life, including your children, family, friends, partners, and world that you can't live without either.  Not that I mean you would actually kill yourself if they weren't around, but meaning they compose the fabric of your existence, your world revolves around them, without which you could not live.  Another words, can't live without!

We all can tolerate and live with many things and other people in our lives, for example, we live with the people who share the same commutes as us, we live with all the other customers who eat, shop, and do business with us, we live with the world when we watch the news or connect with others on any other level in our lives all the time...but the love ones in our lives, our children, family, friends, supporters that we also live with either day by day or not, we can't live w/out because w/out them our lives will be meaningless, lost, and a life probably not worth living.    

Well anyways, that's what I think and get when I read this quote...what about you, what do you think? 

In Love, Light, & Luxury,

James Pham : )

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