love. love. love.

Here’s what I learned from Brienne. 

Loving someone means loving them for all of their parts - the bad and the good. 

Loving someone means seeing the good of them, the honor in them, and understanding them. 

Loving someone means not letting one bad memory mar an infinity of good. 

Loving someone means letting them go when they need to, and still having their back. 

Loving someone needs no words. 

Loving someone is not being a doormat. 

I know many of us may hate that Brienne is a “proverbial” body guard. But that is not what the King’s Guard means for her. All her life she wanted to be a knight, to defend the innocent and protect the weak. 

I don’t think her being Lord Commander is simply being a body guard - I see it as Brienne remaining true to her core character - a knight. The best definition of it. The only true definition of it. And now finally here is a knight that deserves it. 

And I’m glad she was with Jaime because that means that a woman who is tender and loving and sleeps with the man she loves is also a strong knight. And a strong knight is also a woman with feelings. I think that’s great. Here we have a woman who is strong without being any less of a woman. And that’s always been the question for her right?

So everything sucks, and would I want Jaime to be alive and with her? Yes. 

But also I love that she’s Lord Commander. 

I love that she’s someone who fell in love. 

I’m glad that she’s still someone in love. 

Brienne has made me very very proud.