The Light Rays

It is tempting when people will not take down their armor (and love you in the way you want them to love you) to restrict the flow of your love and play a defensive tit for tat game of “I’m only offering you the same degree of love that you will offer to me”.  But I am now convinced that this is a shield that carries the mark of a coward.  The braver person does not base their love on how much they are getting back.  The braver person does not need the validation of the other’s reciprocation in order to love freely.  The braver person simply does what comes most naturally to him or her.  And that is to love.  The person who is able to open themselves and their hearts with no hesitation to the world, even to total strangers, is the person who is bravest.  Some may call that person a fool, but shift your perspective and it becomes clear that the fool is the person who cuts themselves off from the world and from loving freely.  They cannot see that they are killing themselves in the atmosphere of their own constriction.

It is never weakness to love.  It is only ever strength to love.  If we could see it as such, those of us who love without reservation could stop feeling pathetic and instead see it as our greatest and most admirable strength.  If we could let ourselves love regardless of what was or wasn’t reciprocated, our love would act as a beacon, leading people back to the truth of themselves.  It could rehabilitate people back to a state where they too are allowing love to flow freely to and from them." - Teal Scott