FRIENDSHIP MAKES MY WORLD GO ROUND
Shoutout to friendship and vulnerability, two things that make my world go round.
Blessings come through in subtle and beautiful ways. I feel continually blessed by the vulnerability-centered friendships in my life.
I’ve come to know a place within myself where wisdom, calm, faith, grace, compassion, forgiveness, and joy reside. It’s a place that knows all will be well and IS well, even beneath the shifting currents of emotion, change, turmoil, and uncertainty. It’s a place where negative expectations can’t take root. It’s a place that provides lubrication for the tangly enmeshments and attachments within my ego so that I can let go and genuinely surrender.
I value vulnerability so highly. In the best case, it brings out the best in myself and in others.
When a dear friend or loved one trusts me and leans on me, I feel filled with love and grace. I feel called to presence. I feel water from the well of wisdom deep within my heart rising to the surface to be poured out and given with the intent to support that person. In this sense, vulnerability can bring out the best in me.
To anyone who has gifted me the treasure of your vulnerability and trust: thank you. I have been so impacted by feeling your feeling heart. This very experience brings out the absolute best in me. It brings love.
Your vulnerability inspires me in a primordial, involuntary way. Because you’ve given me the gift of an opportunity to see you, I get to cherish and admire and love on the gift that is your bare soul. That is so fucking beautiful to me. I’m afraid my saccharine words might make some people want to vomit though...
I wonder if anybody else feels this way about vulnerability?
The act of giving in this way helps me feel full—it gives me a sublimely beautiful opportunity to remember and rehearse the wisdom and insight that lives within my own being. It gives me an opportunity to live out a glorious prayer. To remember who I am. To love freely and openly. To feel what life feels like to be lived with an open heart. To be present, to be an observer. Loving and caring for a close one translates to an experience for me that is so uplifting, holy, and divine. It’s like nothing else.
