Let My Love Open The Door

When tragedy befalls you
Don't let them bring you down
Love can cure your problem
You're so lucky I'm around
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
To your heart
 -Pete Townshend

The human heart is crafty.

Sometimes, it seems as though we have no control over our feelings and it causes us to do things we could have never logically brought ourselves to do...and yet here we stand as emotional wrecks.

I've written about balance in the past and that we have to find a happy center between heart, body and mind. I stand by this belief but I can't get away from how emotions operate and effect us personally.

I've heard it said in the past that we should not trust our emotions, for they will lie to us. I cannot agree with this statement. I submit that we simply misinterpret what our emotions are trying to tell us, because they also have the capacity to protect our hearts just as much as they can destroy them.

There's nothing wrong with feeling vulnerable when it's with the right person/persons. If we don't let those closest to us into our hearts, how are we going to be able to share them with the world?

Sure, people will let us down, that's a guarantee.


Mumford & Sons opens up a song declaring: I, I can't promise you that I won't let you down.

Isn't that the truth? If more relationships started off with this declaration we'd be in much better shape.

Risk is an essential part of feeling. We will never be able to fully love without the ability to let others in. We can give and give and give ourselves until there's nothing left to give and it will be all in vain if we were too stubborn to invite others along for the journey.

It will not happen over night. Trust takes time. Trust takes patience. Trust takes endurance.

You'll know who the right people are when they're willing to climb over that wall surrounding your heart.

Those are the people that no matter how chaotic life becomes, will be standing at your side in full support of who you are.

"Turns out there are few things more chaotic than the beat of a human heart. Speeding up, slowing down. A flight of stairs, a pretty face. Constantly changing depending on what’s happening to us out there. It’s an erratic little son-of-a-bitch. But under all that bump-a-da-bump mess there is a pattern. An order. A simple truth. It’s called love.”
-Chaos Theory

Don't Forget to Breathe

Lately it seems as though small thoughts have been dominating my mind. They always begin small and slowly build to captivate my very being until I can decide what they mean to me.

It has been said that emotionally guarded people put walls up around their hearts. Generally, they were built as a means to protect the builders from pain. This does not mean that guarded people are necessarily living in fear. It is more like they can see the signs of what will hurt them so they close shop and board the windows.

It takes a lot to trust others. It takes a lot to let people in.

I've heard it said that in order to get through to guarded people we must tear down the walls.

I do not think it is that simple.
 
I submit that anyone can take a bulldozer to the wall...but it takes someone special to find a way over top of it.

Matters of the heart are sensitive for a reason. Relationships have to start as something small in order for them to develop into something greater. Great friendships do not happen overnight. Great friendships happen over time.

When we attempt to tear down walls we hurt those we care about in the process. Pain that could have easily been avoidable becomes a reality simply because we were in a rush to heal someone's heart.

The truth of the matter is, life is a process. Relationships are a process. Story is a process. In order to live in the now we have to accept that great moments do not always happen now.

As always simply try to stop, slow down, and breathe.

Inhale. Exhale.

Your story is just beginning. Make it one worth sharing.