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From 12484 km away I can feel the hope. The way it radiates out between the pixels and the filters chosen to frame it. It takes courage to go against the grain. To go against what you have been taught. What you have been forced to think, do, and behave. I can see the happiness in both sets of eyes. The relief of being reunited that reinforces that the decision made was a good one. How do you stay connected when you are separated by oceans. What fuels the choice to abandon everything you know and leave your continent for his. I suppose it’s the hope that I can see and feel even though I am 12484 km away.

Anonymous asked: What is your true love? How do you define it, how does it define you? You have been loved truly by another's definition... have you truly loved another by your own?

Hey Anon,

What a loaded series of questions! I really appreciate them and I have been chewing on how to answer them ALL day.

“What is your true love?” Initially I wondered why it was not “whom”. I don’t think that love can be classified into a single category. I feel that love is both tangible and intangible and runs on a spectrum. I am truly blessed (and not is some cornball kind of way) to have experienced many types of love.

I have a brilliant family that has truly shown true love to me. Most people don’t get that and I am thankful everyday for it.

I have a wide variety of friends that often cross over and create a different kind of love that is a hybrid of friendship and family.

I have also had love for animals as well as city’s. As my first love I have always believed was and still is Manhattan.

As well as in my miss adventures in dating I have shared exchanges of love. Generally I view most things in my life pretty black and white. However in dating I often feel like things that I thought were love turned out not to be in the end. This is one of the only grey areas.

If I was to attempt to define love it would encompass everything listed above.

True Love is also something that is felt as well as reciprocated in action. In this case it cannot be something that is one-sided but shared and exchanged between two people. I don’t think that you need material things to demonstrate love and the little details that are often over looked and shared through words, touch, feeling’s is the best way to reciprocate. 

“You have been loved truly by another’s definition” is a wildly comforting statement. And I am curious as to why you infer such great authority on the matter? What is the definition this is being upheld to?

Sometimes I think that my love to others is a big over the top kind of love, which is how it would define me. I’m horrific at playing games when it comes to matter’s of heart. If I love you, you know it. You can see it in my eyes, in my hand gestures, in my voice, through my words and actions. I don’t think it’s difficult to see. I think this can also be bad thing because it can so easily be misconstrued.

So yes I have truly loved another. Nothing in my life is half hearted and that includes love. 

Does this answer your questions?

What prompted you to ask them?

paintmesecure:

Hold my hand,
you’ll feel I love you.
Take a grip on the next,
absorb this humans’ sympathy.
A smile could be substantially grand,
if you allow it.

Our skin will grow akin.
Our color will become irrelevant
to the joy of ambition.

Feel the hate grow thin. 

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“In New York, they say you’re always looking for a job, a boyfriend, or an apartment. So, let’s say you have two out of three, and they’re fabulous. Why do we let the one thing we don’t have affect how we feel about all the things we do have?”

Generally life is pretty good. However how come when one thing is going bad in your life, and maybe it’s not really that bad, or maybe it is it creates this vacuum of negativity?

As we shuffle through life it’s easy to let the tide just wash over us. Maybe we get tired of fighting back and just start to drift, floating around in this sea of mediocrity. We get just a little numb to the pain as it’s easier to temporarily ignore. That is until something else goes wrong.

We are often caught in this circle of constantly needing one of the above three things, love, shelter, and a means to sustain ourselves.  Generally I think we don’t often always have all three and we are constantly searching never quite satisfied. I think this discontent drives us to keep pursuing, to keep dreaming and to keep achieving.

We get used to always trying to find that one missing piece. That brilliant job that challenges you, excites you and keeps you busy. Or that amazing love in your life who brings to light to areas that were once dark. Or that comforting home to recharge in that is completely your own. However when you have two of the three searching for the third can be frustrating but not necessarily earth shattering.

What happens when you loose two of those three things? It begins to feel as if that little bit of pressure resting on your shoulders just suddenly gives way and is just to hard to deal with.

From time to time this is bound to happen. I hate that feeling of heaviness. The cloudiness that it brings. The way the frustration hits my throat making it difficult to swallow.

All the while you wonder how am I going to push through? Because it does eventually get better. Yet when your stuck in the heavy and another wrench is thrown in it seems as if you will never get out of that rut.

Best thing to do is to stay connected with your people. It’s naive to think that you are the only person experiencing that one wrench. I was reminded of this recently through conversation with KB and DP this week. Comfort and energy to keep plugging on comes from this connection and shared experience.

And if all else fails egging that person’s house who through the latest wrench in might help as well. :p

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Happy Single Awareness Day peeps!

I love Tiffany’s and Garance and the Sartorialist and on the day of love I felt it most approp to share this video with you all!

Which ever type of LOVE you are cherishing today enjoy all that the moment has to offer.

My bestie is geographically single this year and I get to reep in all the benefits! I am looking forward to bringing some little surprises to my fam jam today and then off for Sushi at my favorite place, homemade sherbert and then cap it off at spin! MuWah!

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