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It is almost Valentines once again or as some call it, singles awareness day. Whether someone admits it or not we all want to be loved. We all want to experience love. It does not matter if we have a spouse, serious relationship, family, or friends. A lot of times in order to receive love we have to give love. We also all know that love can be fake or it can be real or true. So the real question is what is "true love" then? Well we have always been taught that we will know it when we see it. Well unfortunately all I see are fake relationships in hollywood and in culture, that are not real or are only for a little while. What about the idea that you will have true love when you have those butterflies and all the bubbles inside of you? Yeah you know those bubbles... Well even if you do have that for someone they honestly go away after awhile. So what are you to do then? I see the greatest example of love, believe it or not, is in the Bible, is in Jesus. Ok it may be cliché....

A couple weeks ago Sarah wanted me to watch "17 Again" with her. I am not to crazy about movies staring Zac Efron but I thought I would give it a try. The story is about how a young man made a choice back in High School that he later regretted his whole life. He choose to marry his High School sweet heart, who was pregnant, instead of pursuing basketball in college. He always blames everything in his life on that. He always says if I could just go back and change that one thing, than everything would be different. In the movie he gets a chance to go back and make the choice again. You would think that he would surely do what he had set out to do, but something else happens. He really sees that he should had been contempt in the position he was in and press forward. He really learned to live without regrets. Well after the movie was over I was thinking to myself, "how many people still live in the past, still live with regrets?" I have talked to many people that l...