The ultimate quest

It was cold out. But that did not matter to you.

You happened across a mission.  You went looking for love.

Love is only spoken about in whispers, or when you see two people pass by whispering sweet things and holding hands.

You wonder how people find love, but more importantly you wonder how they kept it.

Your parents were never able to keep love; they loved no one but themselves and money.  But money never made them happy, nothing did.

Still your search continues when you walk down a street seeing a jogger go by you with an expressionless face.

You cross the street and see an old couple sitting on a park bench enjoying the afternoon sunlight and watching the children play in the park. They have smiles on their faces, ones of honest joy.

Too many times have you seen fake smiles and heard fake laughs. Too often have you seen a day go by when no one around you is honest about how they are handling things. Sadly no one ever turns to the person who can make them see the joy in life. The one they agreed to be with until death and after.

You know that no one takes that oath seriously anymore, yet you keep looking for the one seemingly impossibly quest. You think you have love, then one night it just slips out your door without a note or a good-bye. You wait to see if love will come back to your door, but you wait in vain. Love has left and you have to pick up the pieces and move on.

Yet wait you see a person on the next block pick up a bag of groceries that an elderly dropped and your spirits lift in the hope that maybe you can connect with this person, but alas it is not meant to be so as that person slips on by without notice to the world.

To this day you look for love, one of the most elusive feelings out there. When suddenly someone knocks at your door, you are almost anxious to open the door. What will you let in when you open that door? The unknown scares you but you take a chance and open the door.