Glory Box

This is just the kind of song that appeals to me when I'm feeling less than 100 percent hopeful about my lovelife:

Just give me a reason to love you

Give me a reason to be a woman

I just wanna be a woman

From this time unchained

We're all lookin' at a different picture

Through this new frame of mind

A thousand flowers could bloom

Move over and give us some room, yeah

Give me a reason to love you

Give me a reason to be a woman

I just wanna be a woman

So don't you stop, being a man

Just take a little look

From our side when you can

Show a little tenderness

No matter if you cry

Give me a reason to love you

Give me a reason to be a woman

I just wanna be a woman

'Cause it's all I wanna be is all a woman, yeah

For this is the beginning of forever and ever

Its time to move over

So tired of playing

Just give me a reason to love you

Give me a reason to be

Of course, I have many reasons to be, just as I have many reasons to love the man I'm with, but I do think that I put too much energy into the not-working part when it surfaces rather than viewing it as a natural part of having a relationship with another human being. Instead of letting it (discomfort, uncertainty) be there, I put all my energy into trying to control it away. As a result, I end up exhausted and no closer to where I was trying to get to -- that feeling that things are all settled -- because, of course, that feeling needs to come from somewhere inside me rather than from someone else.

Here's hoping a thousand flowers bloom if I can move over and give us some room...