A reflection of you!

What is love? Good question! I really am not sure. I think the purest form of love cannot even be comprehended. But I do know that we can surely create love from a “choice” perspective. Love isn’t about the feeling of butterflies in your stomach or the heart racing that happens when you first meet someone. Its about saying I am choosing to love you by listening to you, by sharing with you, by being your friend. There are so many different ways to love someone. It would take me all night to name them all but I think the most important example of love is honoring who the other person is and seeing their perfection. They may have certain things that don’t sit well with you or things that even upset you at times but remember… when someone does something to upset you, it is only because it is a reflection of what you either don’t like about yourself or a trigger that you allow to enter your space. For example: If someone told you that you were an alien from another planet you wouldn’t believe them right? Well maybe some of you would but for the most part you wouldn’t. You would hopefully just just say “thank you for sharing” and move on right? But if someone told you that you were stupid, ugly, or fat you would probably lose your mind and have a few words to say back, right? Wrong… they’re exactly the same concept. Allowing someone to come into your space and take your power of knowing you aren’t anything that anyone else says you are is so wrong. You are not what someone else says you are. And if someone does say things negatively towards you its only because it is a direct reflection of how they are feeling about themselves. That, my friends, is the exact opposite of love. Love is to choose to love the good, the bad, and the sometimes ridiculous of another person.

Gratitude with a smile,
Amber

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