"PRICE TAG LOVE!"

I can remember when life was quite simple. I spent countless hours on the creek with my dog. That life was adventurous and I had an exciting time. Sometimes a friend or friends joined me for high adventure. There was hardly a place we could not go. We hunted and fished, never endangering any species, animal or bird.

Today, almost everything in life has a price tag. I remember the words of a song entitled Signs that was on the charts numerous times. A glance at the chorus and one of the verses tells us why. The Chorus goes like this.
Sign Sign everywhere a sign
Blocking out the scenery breaking my mind
Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign.

Verse 2: And the sign said anybody caught trespassing would be shot on sight/So I jumped on the fence and yelled at the house, Hey! what gives you the right/To put up a fence to keep me out or to keep mother nature in/ If God was here, he'd tell you to your face, man you're some kinda sinner. . .

Love does not attach conditions. The fact is, genuine love is always a free gift. It is a commitment to the growth, happiness and fulfillment of the one loved. It could be one’s husband, one’s wife, a child, a friend, etc. Love is a gift that gives itself to the growth, happiness and fulfillment of the one loved.

It is so sad we must live in such a price tag world. You can have my love but there is a price. You must achieve. You must excel. You must perform. You must be perfect. You must be what I want or what I expect. All these appear as signs around the neck of the one demanding impossibilities from those who need just to be loved, and so badly. What a sad world. Perhaps one day a simpler time will return.

Please don’t make those you purport to love suffer from price tag love.