Fear not the unknown paths before you.
The oceans shapes the earth just as the earth shapes it. Perhaps our definition of strength has less to do with intransigence, and more to do with symbiosis. For even mountains will move when the streams demand it.
There are many layers between "you" and reality. Seeing through them is simple but knowing them is harder than it seems; imagining is so much easier than seeing.
Watching the sun set over a new horizon, my home, far away, already in darkness. I knew I had to find my own light.
The most damning lie I have ever believed was that love is violent.
I sought that violence.
I sought that pain.
As if the more I hurt,
the more I gained.
It's taken twenty-nine years less than a lifetime to unlearn this belief.
But every time I learn what love isn't,
I learn what love is.
Like the seasons, life is a perpetual transition. Right now, in this moment, and in every moment past and in every moment to come, there is change. In you. In your environment. Who you are has changed from the beginning of this message to now. Shifting. Undulating thoughts, like waves on water. And if you stop, and just be in this moment, you will begin to see these changes. Embrace them. And swim towards new shores.
I watched from the window as the seasons changed and I can no longer deny the truth:
October is gone and winter will not protect me from the cold it creates.
The sun shines a meager moment after the storm, as if to say "I am still here"...
I am still here.