Love is Blind

By Shantel Hield

Read this carefully!

"Love is blind and it can take over your mind. What you think is love, it's truly not. You've got to elevate and fly." Eve, a new and popular rap artist sang in one of her songs.

These words are the painful truth. Many times young ladies are blinded by their emotions. They allow their feelings to be their guide. Too often they may think they are in love when in actuality they are simply infatuated.

Many young ladies can benefit from following the lyrics of this song. "We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time." Young ladies sometimes rely on their bodies to please or keep a guy. Why can't we let our minds and characters do the convincing? If we want a guy lets show him who we are.

Some young ladies choose to have sex with a guy, thinking it is the normal thing to do. They believe that in order to be a "real" couple you have to have sex. Too many times girls give in to sex because they feel they are in love and when you are in love you have sex. This is wrong! Don't let your emotions put a sheet over your head. Don't let your heart do the thinking. God designed your mind to think.

Young ladies, if a guy claim to love you but can't wait for you, he's not
worth having. Tell him in the words of Toni Braxton "You're not man enough for me!" True love waits!
Let the word sex mean this to you.

S - Setting my mind on better things.

E - Eliminating the wrong things.

X - Exercising the right thing.

Take my advice, elevate and fly.

GT June/Aug 2000