Sara St.John

Life Rafts 


 

 Eleven.

 

What would happen to our relationships and connections if we honored where people are in their journey, rather than imposing upon them how we would like them to be?

 

We said we loved them as they are, yet we need them to be something other than what they are.

If we don’t, why do we get mad when they act by who they are?

—because it imposes upon the ideal

we behold of them. It crosses the bounds of who we need them to be.  

 

Anything other than who they show

themselves to be, is our illusion. It either hasn’t manifested yet or it never will. Either way, its outcome is not your responsibility. Your only responsibility is— to decide if they are enough for you as they are and if not, is that the “no matter what love” you pledged?

 

Unconditional love is; you be you,

in your mess and your glory. You be you as you are, not as I would like you to be and I will love you as that. Just as you are.

 

Just imagine for a moment how much pain would be spared if we stop expecting things from people they never agreed to be. 

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Twenty.

 

We aren’t our jobs.

 

We aren’t our status.

 

We aren’t our wealth.

 

We are not our hobbies.

 

We aren’t our addictions.

 

We are not our past.

 

We aren’t our ancestral line.

 

We are not our wins or losses.

 

We aren’t the things we say and do.

 

At the end of the day when you take off every cloak you wear, who are you?

 

Secondly, are you happy?

 

How many people aside from me asked you that today; are you happy?

 

Are you?

Hold before you your grandest vision of happy you. Close your eyes and envision that version of you, really feel into it. That is who you are. Now don’t tell me that it isn’t. I’m telling you that it is, right now.

 

If you can see it in your mind, you can go there in your body. Drop everything that doesn’t align and GO!