Robin Hood and a Legendary Love

Like the Sphinx, Gone with the Wind, and serious red wine, some things withstand not only the test of time, but gain momentum and get even better as they go along. Take the Legend of Robin Hood. Do you really think he reached the stuff of legend in a couple of months? Was Rob worthy of several movies, a good fox impersonation and fountains right off the bat? Let’s not forget several pubs and a musical!

Researchers recently discovered an actual copy of the newspaper, “In the Hood”, circa 1272. (Read the following in a bad English accent, please) Peasant #1 “Well he’s alright I suppose; gave me half- a- crown, but don’t think much of the tights and little hat”. Peasant #2 “I don’t know, Godfrey; he’s not half bad for a middle man. Takes from the rich, gives it to us lowly lot and obviously doesn’t take much of a cut for wardrobe”. Peasant #3 “Proof is in the pudding, Mates. Let’s see how he lasts through the winter, might be a bit of a draft in his outfit!”

It takes time for a relationship to uncover just what it is made of, regardless of what it appears to look like initially. It is easy to dance together in the Spring of a relationship. Everything is new, and there is nothing to challenge just what the relationship is made of. It is building itself, based on an idea of what it would like to be. It is finding its way, without any history, just the excitement of passion to fuel its path and a glimmer of wondrous future possibilities.

If you decide to stick together into the longer days of Summer, when the light merges into the stars of a sultry summer sky, you begin to know each other a little more. The value of history begins to make itself known. The gentle reminiscing of months gone by, a tease of the amazing possibilities of staying together for a lifetime. Come the Fall, challenges are bound to make their presence known. You have been together long enough for life, with it’s challenges, to enter into the secret garden of your love. Expectations can also run high as time marches on, and once in while there is nothing to eat but Friar Tuck’s really bad soup. Can you eat it together; laugh and know that, once you commandeer the next fancy coach, all will be well again? When the road gets bumpy do you change horses or partners?

Society been distracted by our belief in romantic love and we have sold short the intricacy, the dance, the ebb and flow of real relationships. Like the proverbial falling tree in the forest, (Sherwood or Las Padres), if we have a witness to our life, for better or worse, does the meaning of our life change?

Darling Boys and Girls, it is the tests, both of time and great substance that make or break us. A relationship that is built on cotton candy will melt the first time it feels the rains of winter. The winter of a relationship does not need to be one of discontent. If you work through what is necessary to sustain you at that time, and throw another log or two on the fire, you will survive. You will be better and stronger with even more history to look back upon. Who knows, in time, your relationship might even become a legend.

Have a naughty day!