How does it make you feel?

This song shuffled onto the ipod just as I was feeling a jumble of things about being in an intimate relationship. Reading the lyrics, I think I've felt some version of all of these things, and their opposite, over the past three or four months:

I am feeling very warm right now

Please don't disappear

I am spacing out with you

You are the most beautiful entity that I've ever dreamed of

At night I will protect you in your dreams

I will be your angel

You worry so much about not having enough time together

It makes no difference to me

I would be happy with just one minute in your arms

Let's have an extended play together

You're telling me that we live to far to love each other

But your love can stretch further than you and I can see

So how does it make you feel?

How does it make you feel?

How does it make you feel?

How does it make you feel?

How does it make you feel?

Do you know when you look at me

It is a salvation

I've been waiting for you so long

I can drive on that road forever

I wish you could exist to live on my planet

Well it's very hard for me to say these things in your presence

So how does it make you feel?

Lucky for me, the Buddha teaches us that no feeling is ever final. That's an important one to remember, since it applies to the happy and the sad, the exhilarating and the fearful. When I'm at peace with the world, I can remember that. When I'm not, I sometimes refuse to acknowledge its truth, and that usually leads to suffering.