Knowing Your Self

How can we really know someone when we are all here spending our lives trying to know our selves? We can feel so sure, yet need to remember that people come into our lives for a season, a reason, or a lifetime. Most often the first two.

Ram Dass said we're all here walking each other home. We're meant to do this together, and it happens in many different ways. Sometimes it’s love and deep connection, and sometimes it’s friction that pushes you to grow or someone who comes in briefly and shifts everything. Even the people who hurt us can be part of that walk, not because it’s okay, but because of what it shows us. None of us are ahead or behind, we’re just meeting each other at different points along the way.

A good friend of mine also says that when someone shows you their true colours, believe them the first time.

I hold all of these things as true and real and alive.

I also feel that we give too much weight to the notion of failure. All it means is that we saw potential or an opportunity, we were brave and took a chance, and it didn't work out the way we had hoped or dreamed. There's so much learning and growth in that. As much as their can be pain and sadness and all that comes with it too.

Again, these things can all be true and alive all at once.

This is the beauty and complexity and heartache of being human. And we can either show up or shut down.

I, for one, want to continue to show up and keep choosing me and life, no matter what.