Many people believe romance is only something that can happen between two people. They cannot recognize it as a lifestyle choice. That a life lived in romance is a deliberate act. It isn’t something that just happens to you or always arrives as a gift someone bestows upon you.
Romance is an artform. Ask any artist. Ask any musician. The art or music they create can be powerful and very romantic simply because it is filled with beauty and is a romantic expression.
Romance begins with the individual. You can choose to create it in everything you do or you can trudge through life longing for it to find you. To have a romantic lifestyle requires understanding what romance is and moving beyond pre-conceived limitations which confine romance to being available only to couples.
Romance vibrates in all living things. Romance is beauty. Romance is a feeling. Romance is ambiance.
So how can you create a romantic lifestyle? One place to start is your clothes. Choose clothes that you feel reflect the romantic person inside you. It can manifest as an attitude conveyed by how you wear your clothes. How you carry yourself. Romance has style and requires an awakening of the magic inside. Become conscious of all the nuances in your surroundings. Colors, textures, aromas, and sounds.
If your career requires you don a business suit, then you can add a bit of a romantic look to it with a pin, a lapel flower or a scarf. The way you wear your hair. You can look professional and still have flair. Don’t be afraid to flex your romantic style muscles a bit.
Let that romantic feeling flourish in everything you do. Romance is something that captures the imagination and lingers. It teases and haunts us.
We can enjoy the sensual beauty of flowers or a candlelit room whether we are with our lover or alone. Romance is not exclusive to being a couple – a common misconception perpetuated by industries catering to couples and compounded by those who simply don’t understand how to create romance in their daily lives. Romance can enhance a sexual love relationship, but the flourish of romance is for everyone to enjoy. No one owns romance.
Anyone can have it. That is the beauty of romance. It is universal. You can soak it up wherever you are. It’s magical. It lives in everyone’s soul.
Don’t believe it? Try adding some romance to the simplest of things you do every day. It’s not what you do but how you do it. The special touches in the smallest of details can create romantic ambiance. Test it out.
The difference between someone who has a romance-filled lifestyle to someone who doesn’t is as contrasting as night and day. An example would be how a non-romantic lifestyle person dines compared to how a romantic lifestyle person dines.
Take the test. Go grill a steak for your dinner, bake a potato, and fix a salad.
How will you go about doing this? Will you just toss a steak on the grill, throw some salad mix in a bowl and slather sour cream on your potato, and then sit down in your kitchen to chomp down on it?
Or will you set the table with fresh flowers in a vase, season the steak with a special spice mixture, turn on some music while you slice fresh vegetables to go in your salad, and pour yourself a glass of wine to sip while you prepare your meal? If you answered the latter, then you are practicing a romantic lifestyle.
And the perfection of this form of living, if you want to invite a friend to join you, all the better. You don’t have to be lovers in order to share a romantic dinner or evening. It can be romantic to each of you for different reasons simply because it is a magical moment. That is the beauty of romance. It isn't exclusive to lovers. Romance loves everyone!
Romance is an artform. Ask any artist. Ask any musician. The art or music they create can be powerful and very romantic simply because it is filled with beauty and is a romantic expression.
Romance begins with the individual. You can choose to create it in everything you do or you can trudge through life longing for it to find you. To have a romantic lifestyle requires understanding what romance is and moving beyond pre-conceived limitations which confine romance to being available only to couples.
Romance vibrates in all living things. Romance is beauty. Romance is a feeling. Romance is ambiance.
So how can you create a romantic lifestyle? One place to start is your clothes. Choose clothes that you feel reflect the romantic person inside you. It can manifest as an attitude conveyed by how you wear your clothes. How you carry yourself. Romance has style and requires an awakening of the magic inside. Become conscious of all the nuances in your surroundings. Colors, textures, aromas, and sounds.
If your career requires you don a business suit, then you can add a bit of a romantic look to it with a pin, a lapel flower or a scarf. The way you wear your hair. You can look professional and still have flair. Don’t be afraid to flex your romantic style muscles a bit.
Let that romantic feeling flourish in everything you do. Romance is something that captures the imagination and lingers. It teases and haunts us.
We can enjoy the sensual beauty of flowers or a candlelit room whether we are with our lover or alone. Romance is not exclusive to being a couple – a common misconception perpetuated by industries catering to couples and compounded by those who simply don’t understand how to create romance in their daily lives. Romance can enhance a sexual love relationship, but the flourish of romance is for everyone to enjoy. No one owns romance.
Anyone can have it. That is the beauty of romance. It is universal. You can soak it up wherever you are. It’s magical. It lives in everyone’s soul.
Don’t believe it? Try adding some romance to the simplest of things you do every day. It’s not what you do but how you do it. The special touches in the smallest of details can create romantic ambiance. Test it out.
The difference between someone who has a romance-filled lifestyle to someone who doesn’t is as contrasting as night and day. An example would be how a non-romantic lifestyle person dines compared to how a romantic lifestyle person dines.
Take the test. Go grill a steak for your dinner, bake a potato, and fix a salad.
How will you go about doing this? Will you just toss a steak on the grill, throw some salad mix in a bowl and slather sour cream on your potato, and then sit down in your kitchen to chomp down on it?
Or will you set the table with fresh flowers in a vase, season the steak with a special spice mixture, turn on some music while you slice fresh vegetables to go in your salad, and pour yourself a glass of wine to sip while you prepare your meal? If you answered the latter, then you are practicing a romantic lifestyle.
And the perfection of this form of living, if you want to invite a friend to join you, all the better. You don’t have to be lovers in order to share a romantic dinner or evening. It can be romantic to each of you for different reasons simply because it is a magical moment. That is the beauty of romance. It isn't exclusive to lovers. Romance loves everyone!
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6 comments:
Fabulous blog! For me, I MUST live a romantic life. My friends tease me because I see romance everywhere. I watch for it in the stores. Just the other day I watched a couple in their 40's maybe at the grocery store. They were checking out. Right after the apples were rung up, the man grabbed one and made a production out of polishing it. Then he presented it to the woman like it was a diamond. Her blush was delightful.
I remind my friends all the time how much I love them and value them. It's important to me. I love the analogy of the steak dinner. :) It's the little things in life.
Great post. Thanks for the reminder that just putting a little thought into the everyday can turn it from blah to romantic.
Great advice. It's good to slow things down in life, enjoy each moment and make it special.
Hey Arwen, what a lovely story! I'm glad you enjoyed the article!
Hey Natasha! I'm glad you liked the suggestions.
Hey NJ! Life can move too quickly for me and I must force myself to take a break and smell those roses, too!
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