"Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind, and therefore is winged cupid painted blind"

Shakespeare once wrote in one of his plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream, that "Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind, and therefore is winged cupid painted blind."

There is no other quote in this world that I admire more than this. Shakespeare just had it right when it comes to love. He insured that if you rushed into love without really truly knowing someone that it would end in tragedy. But he also nailed that moment when you see someone for the first time and you just can't get enough. 

But when Shakespeare wrote these fine words of love in A Midsummer Nights Dream, it's the one time I truly thought that if maybe everyone were to read them, they would all fall in love the way we should. No judgment, flaws that can be over seen, and the greatest love ever imaginable. 

It's hard for a girl like me to be accepted for who I am. Many guys and girls are put off by my tattooed and short haired appearance. But that's just my expression. My short hair and tattoos are who I am. People are like packages. All presents have different exteriors. Pretty bows, flamboyant paper, big boxes, small boxes. But think about whenever you've had a package in your hands, are you really all that concerned about the wrapping? Or are you just dying to rip it off to see whats inside? Why can't it be like this with people?

Why aren't people interested in ripping off someones exterior just to see whats on the inside? And no I don't mean a crazy one night stand where a guy and girl are ripping each other's clothes off just to get pleasure. I means someone breaking down another's outer layers slowly just to see what's on their mind.

Everyone has their past and hardships that they carry around with them, and some people are looking for someone to talk to about it, but someone they can trust, someone willing to break down the walls to find out what's behind the mask and actually sit and listen and understand and absorb.

People forget that we are human beings some days. That we are all made up of the same matter and that no particular person is better than the other. We all have something to offer this world and we all have a person. Just finding someone to share those opportunities with is the difficult part.

Perhaps if we all loved like blind winged cupid, we would all be happier. Happier with life, love and we would accept each other and learn to love selflessly.

So ladies and gents...lets all love like Shakespeare wanted.