Tag: love

Gilded Cage – Easy Virtue / Mia Asher

“After that day, I discovered one indelible truth. I discovered that love wasn’t everything that mattered in life. It was an emotion that not many had the luxury of feeling without any pain attached to it. Many say that love will set you free, but I disagree. Love is a cage, a very painful one; its gilded bars made with yearning, heartache, and unfulfilled dreams. And the moment I realized that love wasn’t necessary to one’s survival I became free. No one would have the power to hurt me again.”

― Mia Asher, Easy Virtue

Self Love

Before self-love becomes a liberation, it is first a burden.

Well, there’s the anger at who treated you poorly when you didn’t know to ask for better treatment.

The anger at yourself for what you’ve allowed.

There’s the grief for lost time.

There’s the strangling necessity to push people, things, ideas out, out, out because there’s no room for them.

There’s the loneliness and isolation that accompanies the growth of self.

There’s the new boundary lines, the new range of the word no, the opening of eyes that would rather be shut, and the terrifying realization that love isn’t synonymous with joy.

It’s synonymous with growth.

Jamie Varon 💫

✨Artwork by Nina Zielienska – Krudysz

Love yourself

The day you manage to stay calm in front of whoever provokes you,

when your silence is the right answer, the day you manage to stay calm in the face of the storm.

In the face of noise and foolish words, then you will have achieved the greatest of your successes,

dominate yourself.

It is no longer about winning or losing, being better or worse, having or not having the coveted reason,

it is not even about triumphing over others, it is about the fact that,

finally, you have reached the top of a very high mountain, and it is to conquer you, prioritize yourself and put your mental health first,

your emotional intelligence.

Observe and look around you, don’t judge anymore, just observe the unhappiness, the lack of self-esteem, the burdens and pains that others must carry to live pending other people’s lives, to be aware of the lives of others.

The more you love yourself, the less you will care about the projection in someone else’s eye,

the more you love yourself you will focus on improving yourself and only you.🥀🌷

✍️ unknown

🎨 Ariana Clarice Richards

Always kinda Love ❤️💯🙏

He always pushes the grocery cart.

(and when we get back to the truck, he always unlocks the doors immediately so that I can get in, and then proceeds to unload the groceries, while I’m sat in the truck with the seat warmers on. rain or shine – every time – this is our grocery game plan)

Can I let you all in on a little secret?

It’s taken me many years to appreciate being loved like this.

You see, I spent (ie. wasted) a lot of time looking for all how love in shown in the movies, in the magazines, and on the commercials.

Flowers.

Chocolates.

Romantic meals.

Surprise getaways.

And guess what?

I was disappointed time. and time. and time again.

All because I was looking for the ways that I was being told he should show his love –

Instead of paying attention to how he actually does show his love.

And when I eventually came to that realization, Friends?

That was the relationship game changer.

For he rarely buys flowers,

But he calls me every day when he gets off of work, to see if I need anything picked up.

He never thinks of buying chocolate,

But whenever he sees anything that resembles a slice of plant-based, organic goodness, he always buys it for me – And is always so proud to surprise me with his latest grocery store find.

He can only boil eggs and butter bread,

So while I have never walked into a dining room with candles flickering and plates of gourmet goodness laid out – He wakes up every Sunday morning, puts on coffee, pours up my favorite mug, and passes it to me while I’m cozied up on the living room couch (and if my mug is in yesterday’s dirty dishes, he’ll always wash it out. bless him).

And while he cannot put together a travel itinerary to save his soul,

He has sat in a theatre on Broadway with me to watch a musical. He has walked through Ernest Hemingway’s home with me. He has been through more museums and libraries in a lifetime than he cares to admit. And he has never complained about any of it. Not even once.

And it’s more than that. So much more than that.

He’s gotten up in the middle of the night with a crying baby. If his restaurant order is better than mine, he’ll always switch plates. He watches Sleepless in Seattle when he would rather be watching Jason Bourne (at least I think that’s his name). He knows my most favourite ‘lady products’, and will run to the pharmacy to grab me them whenever needed (if that isn’t love, I don’t know what is).

…And, he will always, always push the grocery cart.

You know, the more I think of it,

The flowers, the chocolates, the romantic meals, and the surprise getaways?

That’s all just momentary anyway.

The flowers die. The chocolate and meals get devoured. And the surprise getaways happen, and then they’re over.

But it’s in the moments that you can depend on (over and over and over again), well, that’s where the love is found.

The good love.

The always love.

Like your ‘most coziest blanket on a fall day’ love.

…And it’s THAT kinda’ love that I want to walk through this life feeling.

Don’t search for the flowers, Ladies. Nor waste your time in want of the chocolates.

Search for the one who will push your grocery cart.

For that’s where the always kinda’ love is ♡

The man in 3D

I had an experience on a plane , on my own headed to San Francisco.

A young Indian man requested to change seats with me , giving me his 1st class seat ! I was thrilled 😁 and certainly knew gratitude but did not note it as a sign .

I was coming off psychiatric RX and very scattered and very high alert ‼️ Many of my experiences were weird . And they did get weird either a relative who revealed a shadow part of her self that has cropped up way too many times resulting in no contact .

That’s ok. I am grateful to be on my way ; acknowledging the varied signs ; numbers , birds , exits and births ; seekers , awakenings in others and tho I am soul exhausted , I rejoice as I open my hands to receive and call on my benevolent angels , spirit guides , ancestors and light workers to further my journey and let me support others as I am abled ❤️🙏💯

To the man in 2D. Today you were traveling from Orlando to Philly. I don’t know you, but I imagine you saw us somewhere. I was pushing a stroller, had a diaper bag on my arm and also lugging an oxygen machine for my daughter. We had smiles on our faces as we were headed to see her “friends” at CHOP (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia). We pre- boarded the plane, got cozy in our window seat and made jokes to those around us about having to sit by my yelling-but-happy baby. The flight attendant came over and told me you were waiting to switch seats. You were giving up your comfortable, first class seat to us.

Not able to hold back tears, I cried my way up the aisle while my daughter Lucy laughed! She felt it in her bones too… real, pure, goodness. I smiled and thanked you as we switched but didn’t get to thank you properly.

Sooo… thank you. Not just for the seat itself but for noticing. For seeing us and realizing that maybe things are not always easy. For deciding you wanted to show a random act of kindness to US. It reminded me how much good there is in this world. I can’t wait to tell Lucy someday. In the meantime… we will pay it forward. AA 588 passenger in seat 2D, we truly feel inspired by your generosity.

Credit: Kelsey Zwick

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