This is Love, This is Life

Ohh, it’s gonna be alright. This is love, this is life. When times get tough we’re still worth the fight, This is love, this is life.

I have often said that I love Bon Jovi for the songs that are so full of truth and optimism. "This is Love,This is Life" makes me smile because it is a perfect example of that. Someone, or maybe many people, said that when people like you it's not for how they feel about YOU, but for how they feel about THEMSELVES when they are around you. That might not be true, but I think it is truth in regard to my Bon Jovi love.

Bon Jovi makes me feel pretty good about me. Not just because I sound awesome rocking out with Jon because my alto voice slides like butter into his perfect tenor keys, but also because their lyrics lift me up. They remind me that I am not alone. In the case of this song, they remind me that I am not the only one who feels like love is turning out to be a lot more work than I had bargained for. I mean, even Jon's Cinderella sometimes feels like she's stayed at the dance too long. (According to him, at least. I haven't heard her doing much complaining). I mean, if a mega-super-talented-rock-star-lyrical-genius with access to anything he could ever want or need still finds love to be a high maintenance task, then maybe it just IS. Maybe I don't have to obsess about what I should do differently or how I could be doing it better. Maybe I am just like the rest of the world, and the Apollo 13 mission, when it comes to love- a successful failure. Maybe no one does it perfectly. And if Jon doesn't feel like much of a price charming, (when I am completely convinced that he is), then maybe its OK for me to feel like I am not always coming through on being a proper princess. Maybe...

In all aspects of love...friendship, our children, our siblings and families, and with our Prince Charmings...we keep moving forward. Do better tomorrow than we did today. When times get tough, we're still worth the fight."

Rock on, friends! This is love, this is life!!

The road here’s paved with the brokenhearted, we gotta finish what we started. Ohhh, better hold on tight, This is love, this is life.