You stood right in front of me, and despite how small you
kept my view, I saw you.
I don’t often stumble upon someone I’ve desperately desired
to know, and to know all of. But when you do, it’s hard to not want their
undivided. I’ve learned that there are those people you meet who’s negatives
couldn’t keep you from them if they tried because there’s something about them
that draws you in, which is usually a rarity. Please realize when I say
negative I’m not relating to flaws. We all have flaws and those flaws are
beautiful and always have a story. Negative meaning something you can’t live
with, like possibly the difference in how orderly one keeps their bathroom, or
maybe religion:)
Relationship is one of my most prized possessions in life. I
may not be the best at being a friend, daughter, or sister, but I try to work
through anything that might stand in the way. There is something so beautiful
about the fight to keep it alive, raw, and real. I think about one of my
relationships with a beautiful friend. It hasn’t been the easiest but that’s
because she truly loves me, which means there is no Fear. No Fear of truth, of
being raw or real, no fear to Love. I have been stubborn, hardheaded and fiery
in return, but yet she continues to Love me fearlessly and constantly reminds
me who I am when I may be outside myself. I’ve fought back, or said my words
freely in return, but at the end I always remember she loves me selflessly and unconditionally.
None of her words come from jealousy or unspoken deceitful motives but to truly
better me.
Can you think of anything better in Life?
You know the feeling of satisfying exhaustion, possibly after
climbing your first mountain for 12 hours and you catch yourself running on
adrenaline because your terrified you may get attacked by a bear, but you feel
like you’ve concurred the world?
That feeling of
satisfying exhaustion, it almost replenishes you. You worked hard at something
and can feel the journey in your blood. Even though it may have been hard, it
was so worth it.
It reminds me of a beautiful relationship, and amazingly that
is what we have been designed for. It is what I am designed for, to build
others up and others build myself up through the journey of relationship.
Sadly because relationship is so powerful and meant for our
creation, it can have the opposite effect on us which we all understand is part
of the risk in letting our heart be revealed. Despite our past, we must always
be willing to embrace our future or then you risk to possibly live a life
without something exhaustingly Beautiful. I will end with my favorite quote
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your
heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it
intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round
with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in
the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark,
motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become
unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” C.S. Lewis
