When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal

by Brianna Wiest

What if, instead of begrudging someone for not being precisely the person you imagined they would be, you realize that the offering of someone’s time is the ultimate sacrifice and the epitome of love? What if you realized that they are under no obligation to be who you think they should be, and the most loving thing you could do would be to set them free of the expectations you hold in your own mind? What if you realized that they don’t have to be just as you imagine in order for you to exchange the love you are meant to share?

What if your body appears precisely the way it is meant to, but you are so busy focusing on the flaws that nobody else notices, you’re overlooking the beauty everyone else sees?

Love is a pervasive, steady presence, not a heart-pumping dash of lust. Destiny is a subtle coincidence, it makes you stop and say, well, isn’t it funny how that worked out.