I Love Love!

One of my favorite people in the world announced her engagement today. We don't talk often but that doesn't change a relationship based in true love. She is a woman who I have walked through some incredible things with, we have seen each others' awesomeness and not so awesomeness, ha ha ha! Our journey flashed before my eyes, as well as parts of her journey before we met too, and tears of joy just started streaming down my face and then a lost it. I just felt the most incredible joy and a sense of relief as well as inspiration! She and I have actively worked on loving and accepting ourselves, together and apart, for many years now. The most difficult and the best work anyone can do, in my opinion, is to go deeper and deeper into accepting and loving their own sweet self. The whole package, shiny and not, of course. ;-)

Awhile back I started seeing photos of her and her fiancé and I knew immediately that something was different, her happiness was wholehearted and she looked utterly at peace. I could see that she was loved and that she felt it! I was so happy and excited to see more... all the photos were like delicious chocolates for the heart. This person that I love SO much, this person who has loved me SO much was like a flower blooming and blooming again! It was so incredible to see! So wonderful and inspiring! 

So when I read that she was engaged in my notifications, well, I just lost it, ha ha ha! An explosion of joy and inspiration! True love does exist, people. It exists between friends and in romantic relationships, and sometimes even with relative strangers, and it is absolutely awesome and wonderful! Since it does, why not strive to make ourselves ready for such love by working our asses off at loving ourselves. If that is what it takes to have it, to have that incredible ever blooming happiness combined with an inner peace that is even calming just to look at, isn't it worth it? I believe in love. I believe in choosing it at all costs, in fact. It is possible, it really is... but it begins at home, in our own hearts. So get in there!

Congratulations and gratitude to my beautiful friend and her beautiful man, and love to all.