Your Weekly Goop

My ma, dropping hints as she tends to do, once photocopied this very same extract from Kahlil Gibran in today's Goop (courtesy of Dr Karen Binder-Brynes talking about marriage) and left it on my bed:

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup, but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping; For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together; For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.”


I knew what it meant, but I couldn't see the forest for the trees for a long while. It's so true, and so important to never give yourself or parts of yourself up in a relationship (unless you really, truly want to) and to never be nothing more than the other half of a couple.


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