We Look For What's Chasing Us.

'Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavements, even if it leads nowhere?' To be honest, when Adele sang that song, I was baffled as to what she meant by chasing 'pavements', but now if I was to define it in my own understanding; JUST of the title 'chasing pavements' and in relation to this post, a pavement is another name for a side-walk; out of the way of cars or anything that can run you over; a safe place, your comfort zone. This is what you're chasing. Something that you're used to, something that saves you from all the hustle and bustle you'll have to deal with if you cross the road. At least on the pavement, your requirements don't change, you're content...but are you happy in staying somewhere that doesn't even lead anywhere? Yes it's safe and looking real attractive right now, but it's at a stand still...ain't nothing happening there. Yet, you still chase it. OK so I'm not talking about concrete literally, I'm talking about humans. Women and Men that we love to chase, because they're soo attractive to our eyes; they are our comfort zone, because they make us look good, they make us happy, we get a buzz out of sticking to our typical stand-stills. We get so caught up, that we don't want to explore, we don't want to take a risk, because the roads; the bumpy awkward looking paths ain't our cup of tea.

Every one of us is looking for love...well the majority of us. Some have found it, some have not. For those who have not, I think we are still standing on that pavement, caressing it with our feet. We are chasing after guys or ladies who in reality ain't chasing us. But we stay in that predicament hoping that one day, just ONE day he or she will change their minds and feel the same way that we do. But when each day passes and your situation is still the same; you're thinking about him or her while they get on with their lives and are probably on the verge of hooking up with someone else, that pavement is a lost cause and baby you just gotta cross the road and take a chance on where there is actually hope. I'm sure some of us have been in that situation where we want someone so bad, but at the same time there is that other person that has been after us for quite a while now; but we ignore them, because they are just not our type; that'll be stepping out of our comfort zone, and our love just won't feel safe any more. It could be true that because it's not attractive to us, we step on it and pretend that it's not there any more; but it is. In reality, even though I write this, the truth is we will still chase after those that look attractive to us, you know have that so-called 'swagger' and that smoothness about them, but its just to clarify that we get so caught up in that beautiful smooth exterior, that we forget that it is love we were once chasing. We think we are chasing love, while love is actually chasing us. We just turn a blind eye to it.

Don't get me wrong, this isn't the sole reason as to why some of us are still single. Everyone has their own issues, but then again 'There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven' [Ecclesiastes 3:1 NIV]. I'm only but highlighting this particular thing about pursuing love that does happen in every day life. I'm sure that what a person looks for in a partner, is love, to be cared for, protected, treated with respect, to be catered to in every way and much more, and this is what may be pursuing you, while you're pursuing someone who is 'pushing beauty' in the words of Day 26. If we could find it in ourselves to leave our comfort zone, that so attractive place to be and cross the road full of bumps and what we're not used to; I do think there is a possibility that what we originally were looking for; that love, we will find in the destination we once ran from. If you're ready, take a leap across the road. Watch the cars though ;)