UNIVERSAL LOVE

I don’t know about you, but I need to dive deeper than the surface at least once a day. observe the play of spider filaments in the rays of the spring sun. watch the skyline turn into black stencil cutouts in the evening. peek into the worlds of reflection between display windows and the interior lighting. it all feels the same to me – the detailed nuances of the reality we live in - it all feels like love to me.

and sometimes all I want to do is sit in the midst of it all, close my eyes, breathe it in and let the love flow freely. for you. for me. for every living and non-living entity. and let it twirl around me. let it twirl twirl twirl. the sensation becomes so real; I can almost touch it with my bare hands. the invisible, inaudible, tasteless feeling of being alive. singled out from all the noise that comes along with it, the awareness of it all is the purest form of love that there is.

I often think about how to make others see what I see, feel what I feel and sometimes wish my eyes were cameras and could just take you to where my mind goes. The best I can describe the way there, is: sensitivity will build on what arises within you once you begin to love your self – and the love for your self will expand into love for the whole god-damned existence. for why we are lucid. why we can experience anything at all. Even though it’s all a random, nonsensical gift, but on days such as yesterday and today, with the first day of spring promising absolutely everything, the thought of ‘why’ doesn’t even cross my mind. I just let it all move around me. the rays and thoughts and flower petals.  

And yeah, even though Valentine’s Day is cheesy and commercialized, the thought behind celebrating love is a sweet one. Besides, I promise you also couldn’t help but smile when seeing all the boys, grown-up and un-grown, stand behind each other in line to buy flowers. They made it so easy to indulge in their spillovers of caring. I kept thinking about how beautiful of a thing it is, to care for someone’s smile. how beautiful that we care at all and that we all care. and we should. we should love each other. unconditionally and for the simple fact that we are alive and alive together.       

Imagine all of us dancing only with each other’s beauty. Empowering and exciting, raw and sentient. Next time you get excited about someone or something, cherish this feeling because this excitement for the process of it all is love for life. love for being. love for feeling. believing. seeing. breathing. Disguised as being attached to that someone or something, but really this excitement is always underneath. always bubbling to be released, to live – just like we do.

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