Beau Taplin's Blog, page 23

"Beautiful. Crushingly so. You look like the rest of my life."

“Beautiful. Crushingly so.

You look like the rest of my life.”

- Beau Taplin • F o r  L i f e

"You are unstoppable, not because you do not have failures or doubts,but because you continue on..."

“You are unstoppable,

not because you do not

have failures or doubts,

but because you continue

on despite them.”

- Beau Taplin • U n s t o p p a b l e 

"There are an infinite number of ways to lose someone you love. It could be to disloyalty, abusive..."

“There are an infinite number of ways to lose someone you love. It could be to disloyalty, abusive behaviour, or tragedy, or even the cold, cruel march of time, but no matter the cause, the aftermath is always the same, you feel like you are at the point of breaking and the only one who can hold you together is gone. With nothing else to hold onto and no place to go, you cling to the memory and make a home of a ghost, mourning every passing moment driving them further from you as days turn to weeks and weeks turn to months.



Welcome, this is rock bottom, but what you may have forgotten is that rock bottom is the foundation on which you can be remade. The truth is, all pain can be reshaped and repurposed. With the right care, all wounds will heal back more resilient than before. When the heart is shattered, you can create something beautiful from the fragments. Where there is some lesson there is never a loss.



Listen carefully to your healing, give it room to do its work. Allow yourself the space to feel grief when it calls on you to, but also permission to feel joy in those rare moments warmth returns to your heart. When you make the choice not to fight the currents of your feelings you allow them to take you where they need to and moving forward becomes a gentler process. Embrace your sadness. Meet it head on. It is a source of strength that can be drawn from and directed wherever you choose. Use it to create art, chase down a dream, or make a life change you’ve been neglecting. Loss will reshape you either way, but you decide what shape it leaves you in.



Remember always to move at your own pace. When you attempt to hurry yourself through a loss you don’t escape the grief, you bury it, and one day it will find a way back to the surface. Only you can know the distance of your healing and only you can know when you have arrived.



So be patient, be tender, and take your strength where you can. Listen to your sad songs when you need them and face the world when you feel brave. Your pain doesn’t have to be your prison, remember that. It can be a key to a doorway and you decide where it leads.”

- Beau Taplin • T h e  S h a p e  O f  L o s s 

"If it hurts more than it makes you happy then take the lesson and leave. Listen, it’s going..."

“If it hurts more than it makes you happy

then take the lesson and leave. 

Listen, it’s going to be OK. Some people are only rehearsals for the real thing.”

- Beau Taplin • R e h e a r s a l s 

"The difference between an ordinary life and an extraordinary one is only a matter of perspective...."

“The difference between an ordinary life and an extraordinary one is only a matter of perspective. Pull the blinds. Look around you. It is a weird, wonderful world and you do not require a ten digit bank account to immerse yourself in it. Travel down dusty roads without a destination in mind. Climb a mountain and scream out into the void. Kiss a stranger. Skinny dip in a lake. Get lost and lose yourself (these are two separate things). Explore the wilderness (particularly the one within). Think less of destiny and more of the moment right here. Because in the end, as you reflect back on your life in that hospital bed, surrounded by all of your family and friends, fame won’t matter, nor will the extent of your wealth. You are only the sum of the stories you can tell.”

- Beau Taplin • A n  E x t r a o r d i n a r y  L i f e 

"You felt familiar the moment I met you. A lovely sort of déjà vu. When we spoke or laughed or danced..."

“You felt familiar the moment I met you. A lovely sort of déjà vu. When we spoke or laughed or danced I became overwhelmed by the powerful sensation that I had been here before. And when we kissed I felt the energies of a thousand lives on our lips, like our souls had known each other all along.”

- Beau Taplin • D é j à   v u

"Once a deep and powerful connection between two people has been made they become a vital part of..."

“Once a deep and powerful connection

between two people has been made

they become a vital part of each

other’s lives and there is no separating

them. No measure of distance or duration

of silence can prevent the outbreak of

smiles and laughter or the strong

desire to leap into each other’s arms

when they come together once more.”

- Beau Taplin • U n p r e v e n t a b l e 

"Where there is a lessonthere is never a loss."

“Where there is a lesson

there is never a loss.”

- Beau Taplin • R e s h a p e  T h e  P a i n

"You’ll survive. That’s the first thing they tell you after you lose someone you love. And you know..."

“You’ll survive. That’s the first thing they tell you after you lose someone you love. And you know what, they’re right. In time, we all find a way to pick up the pieces and move on. What they so often leave out, however, is survival and happiness aren’t always the same thing.”

- Beau Taplin • Y o u ‘ l l  S u r v i v e

"To be touched - truly touched - that’s what I’m looking for. To unfold at a brush of skin like a..."

“To be touched - truly touched - that’s what I’m looking for. To unfold at a brush of skin like a rare flower blooming. To be surfaced at the curl of fingertips around my soul. I am so tired of shallow fun. I want my heart to shudder at a touch, to whisper, “here, here, it’s all yours.”

- Beau Taplin • T h e  T o u c h