To Love Is To Be Vulnerable

      I love this quote by C.S. Lewis!  It is so simple but says so much... Love is great.  It can provide a kind of happiness that feels otherwise unattainable.  It can between best friends, lovers, family.  True love can last a lifetime.  Love can make you stronger and it can also leave you at your most weak.  It can inspire you and it can discourage you.  It can make you want to be the best at everything you do or it can make you want to give up.  Love can make you lose your mind.  Love is so simple and yet so complicated.  True love is possible.  But without vulnerability, it can't be.  

      Its easy to lock your heart away and save yourself from the possibility of failure or pain or regret.  But it takes courage to love and love wholeheartedly.  The most beautiful things in life always come with risks, sacrifice, and work.  Never be afraid to put your heart on the line and let someone in enough to change it.  It will get broken.  And it will leave a scar.  But someone will make sense later out of the broken heart you may have at the time.  And the ones who left the scars will someday know that what they sacrificed you to have, should have been what they sacrificed to have you.  The ones who were afraid of love and therefore kept themselves from it will come to wonder what could have been.  The ones who thought not giving their heart away was safe will feel more jaded than those who have felt love, even if they lost it.  Never be afraid to love simply because it could be lost.  Someone will heal it! 

                                Infinite X's and O's, 

                                                             Dee