03/15/2020
01/30/2019
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Travelling alone gives me to time. Time to think, and time to see.
With time, I always find myself being drawn to stories and thoughts of love. Whether it’s the stories unfolding around me in airports or new cities, depicted in media or literature, or my very own stories of love, they always seem to come into focus.
They are warming and inspiring, painful and thought-provoking.
Love is a beautiful thing to feel of course, but also a beautiful thing to share with the world and to see in the world.
Case in point my sister and her hubby caught smooching at the love wall!
I’ve received a similar message from multiple sources in the last year that essentially boils down to this: make choices and act from a place of love not fear.
So I’ve started to take a deeper look at my decisions and intentions and see if there is fear at play. It’s not always obvious, but more often than not I’m able to dig up a piece of that decision rooted in fear.
And then then I re-evaluate.
With our ability to choose comes the ability to choose again – choose differently, if we so wish, if we endeavour to be so courageous.
Our ability and capacity to love is limitless and in a world of dwindling resources how comforting that is.
It’s said that the need to be loved is a basic and fundamental need. Agreed.
Yet, I also agree with the parallel need to love as an equally fundamental need and desire which when well received increases the happiness of both the giver and receiver.
As humans we simply cannot exist in the same capacity without love, it’s what makes us so damn special.
But therein lies the problem, at least for me at times. Giving all of our love can be draining and depleting if we are not getting it back at the capacity in which we are giving it.
But everyone has the right to love in their own way at their own level. Therefore it is up to each of us to be responsible for deciding who is deserving and worthy of this bottomless gift of love we have to offer. We must also find other ways to let love into our lives instead of only expecting it to come from others in return.
One of my dearest friends recently said to me, ‘You are not alone, you have you. Enjoy falling in love with yourself’. And this is exactly what I mean. Enjoy giving your love to yourself, to things you enjoy and find ways to feel love that doesn’t empty you but that fills you up.
Sometimes it takes time to love and appreciate who we are, where we are, and where we’re headed. And that’s ok.
Love today, love you, and love others anyway, no matter where you are in your journey.
Expressing love in whatever way feels right for you is the best gift you can give the world.
U.S. Navy Retired, Admiral William H. McRaven says in his book Make Your Bed, Little Things That Can Change Your Life…And Maybe the World:
“It’s not the size of your flippers that counts it’s the size of your heart”
Yes Mr. McRaven, yes. We need more role models like you spreading this word.
So my wish for you tonight and always is this:
Lead with your heart, and may your capacity to love and receive love be ever growing.
Sending My Love
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