Barbie Bilo (Edison):Do They Know You Love Them?

We hear it all over the media. “Live like you’re dying; say what you need to say,” etc. etc.But even with those reminders we forget. With the media playing on our emotions we think that life changing things only happen in movies and true love is only validated if you write a song about it. But considering for a moment that love is real, (at least in a realistic way for our own realities) do we really show how much someone means to us on a daily basis?Many of us are parents, so we tell our kids that we love them and we do all the little chores for them that they don’t notice without complaint. We do all these things and hope that they know how much we care for them. We get frustrated with them but we forgive them, and hope that they know that there is nothing in this world that would keep us from doing that time and again.But there is a problem with this formula.How many of us physically play with them anymore? How many of us hug them as often as we should? How many of us SHOW them directly how much we love them?We work hard and we do everything for them but we may not realize that they don’t see our work the way we do. Sometimes we get so caught up in the race for success that we don’t see that they only understand love when it’s right in their faces. When we are young we don’t always see farther than our own interactions and our youth might be missing those direct encounters that are so crucial.How do we fix this? Or is this not a large problem?

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