Share Your Heart

To share is to give a piece of yourself away to another, both an intimate and terrifyingly fragile act. To share your work, thoughts and feelings, your dreams, and wishes places you in a vulnerable state. The duality here is marvelous for you see, most people are paralyzed by discomfort in being vulnerable, yet this intimate act provides the key to cultivating love and trust between you and another (even with yourself whether or not you were received with open arms). To share is to give a piece of yourself to the world, no matter how much you decide to share. A beautifully fragile thing.

Try to remember, dear reader, I am undoubtfully human and, therefore, am not immune to fear nor to making mistakes along the way. I've grown to be more comfortable with being vulnerable, yet the fear of intimacy still grips my soul like a puppet on strings. Personally, I often find the very thing we fear is also what we desire most, as you may recall from my previous story, "Fear or Desire." Ironically, I am a hopeless romantic (but you didn't hear that from me) and I deeply desire to share myself, all versions of myself, with the world; with my world. Perhaps I have more love to give than I realized, or maybe I have enough life and light to share, I do not know. All I know is that to be human is to constantly reside within duality, but one must push beyond discomfort to love and to find love. Love is the act of sharing in of itself, is it not?

Now, what do I mean by sharing yourself? Well, you see, the act could be as grand as contributing towards the greater good of humanity, volunteering on projects to aid in global/ecological health, or building a family or community; or it may be as simple as smiling to a stranger, having a meal with a neighbor, or even by how you greet the day. Each are beautiful in their own right. How you choose to share doesn't require magnificent effort or scale of results, only that you share from authenticity. By my writing to you, dear reader, I am sharing a piece of myself with you. My writing isn't always pretty or clear, more often than not it is messy or maybe a bit uncomfortable to read, but it is raw and authentically mine. I write from my heart for the practice of writing is something I must do, being an element of who I am, and I write to challenge that discomfort of vulnerability. So, to you I say please, share yourself with the world. It doesn't need to be all at once or in grand gestures but could be in small moments over time. Practice sharing each day and your life will grow with an abundance of love.