"The man I wish to wake up beside will not play games with me, for he knows there is freedom in being chosen." 

-Janne Robinson

I believe in love more fiercely than I believe in anything on earth. In the universe even. I believe that love is the energy tying it all together. God, nature, friends, our work.... they are all a part of this little flash we call life. Love is generated from within. There is no love greater than the love we believe we are worthy of. We must choose ourself, every day, and love every part of ourselves exactly as we are. Love is allowing ourselves the freedom to be broken, knowing that in time we will heal. Love is taking long baths, or if you hate baths, then dancing until your feet are tired. Love comes from seeking, finding and being the you that you are stoked to show up in. 

When you love yourself, who you are, and what you do... love will find you. It's hard to say when or where or how long it will stay, but when love walks into the room, say hello. Love is more like a slip than a fall. It happens in the conversation that digs into just the right pocket of your heart that you've been saving to share. The pocket full of your dreams, and beliefs, and things that you save for the person who understands. If someone shares this pocket with you, it is your one duty to treat it with respect. Even if you slowly realize that you are not ready for the depth, or truth of the human in front of you... take what she has given you in your hands, fill them with kisses and gratitude and gently hand them back. Make sure she knows that you know how lucky you are to have been invited into that window. 

If you are the one sharing the you hidden in this pocket, you are brave. It takes trust and time to know that your truth is more important than the judgement of others. That your truth may be misunderstood, but that it is more important to be true to yourself than to hold back or change or try to be anything that you're not. When you are all of you, your people will find you. And when they love you for the you that you love, you will fill up so fully knowing that you are being seen. My gift is my transparency. It has taken time to accept my emotions and learn how to interact with them and the world by taking responsibility for them. 

I love deeply, I laugh loudly, I trust easily, I fall apart often, and I feel feelings fully. I have gathered friends that understand, who help me see how I am coming off to the world gently and lovingly, and who believe in me. I have also lost friends who I knew believed in me, but a version of me that just isn't true to the version I am. There is freedom in being chosen. In knowing that the people you choose are choosing you too. That love is freedom. The freedom to be who you are without having to modify any of it. 

There are no games. There is only love and freedom. I choose love.