Love’s Creativity

Lesson: Don’t loose it.
 
Is it true as we get older we loose our creativity? 
Well, yes.
When I was younger I would write the most incredible adventure stories, like you wouldn’t believe, with interesting characters, a plot, climax, the whole package.  As I got older and note passing was big between friends in school, I would write the most clever things that was either sweet and thoughtful or funny and silly, or both.  It was plenty to keep our young minds entertained through class.  Then as I continued to get older I would apply my witty writing style to cute love letters and would give them to my high school sweet heart.  I didn’t hold anything back and just wrote as the words came to mind. My thoughts unfolded on paper so perfectly with practically zero effort.  I would give him a note for no occasion at all, and he loved them and would ask for more.  Sometimes he even wrote back.  I remember around the end of my senior year close to prom, I wrote him probably my best note ever.  It was pages long, I’m not sure exactly but I think around 3 or 4 pages, and every other sentence rhymed throughout the whole thing.  Our names were in there, all the fond memories, and even some bad ones, I had of our relationship.  It was the cutest thing.  I even have the rough draft, I kept them all, and I came accrossed it a few years ago at my parents house where most all my keepsakes are.  I couldn’t believe how creative and beautiful my writing was then. 
 
Mark and I seemed to have made it a theme, or maybe I could say a tradition, to write each other sweet little love blurbs in cards for special occasions.  For our first anniversary I wrote a letter on paper and started crying while reading it aloud to him (ahhh love is a wonderful thing) but I remember having trouble making it sound good and I wonder where all my clever writing skills have gone?  Our three year anniversary (THREE WHOLE YEARS!!!!) is next month and aside from getting a gift, which I have no idea what it will be, I want to continue the trend and write him something adorable.  I’m starting extra early this year since I know I’ve had some writers block in this area for a while now.  I started to write some things down today, whatever came to mind, but nothing sounds good!  It’s all so cliche, I want something orginial and thoughtful and something that says "I LOVE YOU, I WANT TO BE WITH YOU FOREVER!"  But it more words than that.  I’ll have to keep my mind open and pen close to jot dowm some sweet thoughts when they come to me.  Kind of like writing a thank you note and how it’s best to write one soon after you recieve the gift, when you’re feeling the most thankful.
 
It’s such a nice thing we’ve done for each other in the past, and what great memories they’ve made for me.  Like our first Valentine’s Day together, the first time he told me he loved me. The memory touches my heart.  We had been dating for about 5 months probably.  I thought we would go out to dinner, like most everyone does, but he insisted on fixing me a dinner at his place, anything I wanted.  If you know me, you know I wouldn’t request anything but shrimp pasta, probably my favorite dish.  I wasn’t allowed to come over his place until he phoned so I spent the afternoon at my best girlfriends apartment making cup cakes for Mark.  I decorated each one differently with hearts and arrows, me mine, S+M, cute stuff like that, and brought them over when it was time.  He arranged a table for two, a arrangement of flowers in the center, red wine, cream of crab soup, shrimp pasta, everythig perfect.  After we ate he picked up my plate and I grabbed the little card out of the flowers and started to read it.  The front said the sweetest few sentences. At the end it said something like "I’ve been waiting for the right time to tell you and I know this is it" and there was an arrow for me to turn it over and it said I LOVE YOU and there he was standing over me, saying it outloud.  Romantic!  And we hugged and kissed.  It was a great feeling.
 
So anyway, our 3 year anniversary will be here before I know it, and I’m looking forward to it even though it is on a Wednesday and we’ll both have to work.  We still know it’s our day.