Why We Should All Learn A Lesson From Taylor Swift

A conversation today with some friends sparked this idea for my blog.
No one dislikes Taylor Swift.
Yes, she is the all American girl-next-door with looks to match her angelic singing voice and guitar virtuoso. She is a blonde, blue-eyed cutie who is pretty, but not intimidatingly so, and just listening to her songs can brighten even the most cynical of cynics' day... but this is not why we love Taylor Swift.

Taylor Swift is unabashedly open about love.

I am of the opinion that this trait, this transparency, is something we could all use a little more of and is the reason that Swifty gets under everyone's skin.

I wonder sometimes why public displays of affection are so taboo, and why having a "mutual breakup" (as if that EVER really happens) and not "kissing and telling" are such regular ways of dealing with love loss and gain.

Why can't Taylor's type of honesty be normalcy?

Enough with the guessing "does he or doesn't he feel like I do". Enough with the games, enough with the stupidity that the game of love can turn in to - why can't we just tell the people we love how much we love to be around them every day - and if the mood strikes, serenade them with a country song or two?

Honesty is always the best policy, and Taylor Swift embodies this, and sings her heart out to boys and girls around the world about the power of love - the good and the bad, the happy and sad.

She's not afraid to fall in love 20 times before getting it right, and listening to her music, you get the feeling that she has kissed her share of frogs (Joe Jonas... anyone?).

3 people very close to my family have unexpectedly died in the last few months, and today I heard that the fourth Canadian soldier this month was killed in Afghanistan. I can only hope that someone told these people first and foremost, that every day they were loved. I hope that honesty was a priority in their situation, and I hope that they could live their (too short) lives with the satisfaction that love had prevailed for them.

On my run today, listening to a medley of T. Swift songs, I realized that she has it right. Love isn't about forever. It's about right now in a 2 minute pop gem. It's about telling someone how much they mean to you, and hoping he or she returns the favour. If this isn't the case, it's about picking yourself right back up and knowing that love isn't solitary and that you can find what you're looking for if you only try.

Love is all around - Taylor Swift believes that and so should we.

*It's a love story, baby just say yes*