Different Sides

You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go. ~ Craig Thompson, Carnet de Voyage

When you love a person you should love all of them. Whether you be: Romantically involved, family involved, friend involved, or frenemy involved. However, you can probably scratch the last one off. Nevertheless, you should love all of them. But what is all of them? Frankly, it can be difficult to know where someone begins and where the add-ons end.

With people, loving them and not they're faults or the parts that they put up for people is quite tricky. It's probably best explained like this.The person you love is fleshy, pink, human and all. However, whether they put on or change different clothes would be like their faults or good things about them. Loving a fault or good thing they do would be like loving a tee-shirt and not the human.

In a way that's good, because while faults aren't as easy as changing a sock, they can be stripped away to find the real person that you loved all along.

Sometimes the person you love will get holes or rents in they're clothes. Or in this case, they're traits that they stop doing. It may seem to change them, but the real person is still there because it's just holes in their clothes or how they act and the things that they do.

In addition, a person you love may get scars or gray hair of wisdom.These are part of them truly. Not like clothes that are traits that you can pop off and on. These can be caused by events that shake them or change 'em so much so that it comes part of them. It's still them, but a bit different because what they have been through.

With loving someone, it's important to really love them for who they are and not what they do. Sure you can love the things that they do that come from being them. However, if you love only that, what happens if they stop doing that? Or it can also apply to someone having a bad trait, they have the trait that drives you crazy. That's just a sock, it can be taken off and there's the person you love so dearly.

So whatever the case, the things people do that you love or hate, is in a way just like a fruit of where they are right now in they're life. It's not always pretty but as that person that you truly loves changes love them for all they are. Just like a tree, you water it, prune it when it needs it, and finally enjoy the different aspects of it through every season and weather.