pastery

I think one of the biggest challenges in life is to handle true, deep and sincere love. It is delicate. It is genuine. It is so fragile. It is just there. Overwhelming. Comforting. Inescapable. It is like giving your heart a silver plate to the other person, and putting the complete trust that the person would not betray that trust. Putting that ultimate hope in the other person, and not really caring about yourself. Yet I do believe I know of a bigger challenge. The “worst” or “biggest” challenge is really when you are not “allowed” or “prevented” to share love. When circumstances play together in an intricate dance around you preventing you from obliging to the love. It is the Romeo and Juliet story. Handling unanswered love is easy. Handling answered non-allowed love is The Challenge. 

I do believe that we constantly face these challenges in various shapes, and that many just do not dare this leap. Personally this intimidating leap in many ways terrifies me. It is about loosing all control. It is to fully realize that you need to trust the other person to be gentle and honor as well as recognize the offering. That leap of faith is the tough one.

I have come to the conclusion that even if you want to. You cannot “escape” people who are “your north, your south, your east, your west, your working week, your Sunday rest, your noon, your midnight, your talk, your song…” I am not sure you should escape, but the path is a tough one. The Toughest.