How amazingly beautiful it is to love and be loved so deeply and genuinely. To experience love, at its most authentic level. In romance, in friendships, in passing strangers. To know yourself on an intimate level and love every bit of it. To know that through the eyes of others, they see the gift that you are to the world.

How overwhelmingly, amazingly beautiful that is.

In recent life events I have experienced the gift of a deep love for another human. The love of knowing them on an intimate level and loving them for all they are and all they are not. Loving them just as they are. Them loving you just as you are, for all your faults, annoying habits, emotional outbursts, crazy ideas, kind heart and fears. What I am finding is that some times this type of deep love is to leave a lasting impact on the lives of those that experience it. It doesn’t mean they will be in your life forever, that you are “destined” to be together but that you each get the gift for the rest of your existence of knowing you are loved, you are lovable. They will forever be sending you gratitude, hoping for an amazing future for you and they are not a part of.

The initial removal of them from your life is worse than someone dying. When someone dies you know their soul has moved on to heaven and they are good however they no longer walk the earth. They are no longer out there to hear you or to speak to you. When you have someone removed from your life that is still hear on earth you wonder about them. What they’re doing, how things worked out, what they’re struggling with. What I know from deeply loving someone is that your love for them remains. And in knowing that, their love for you remains. The power and beauty of love goes on and stays in our hearts even when they are gone.

So what am I getting at? Feel the gratitude you have for who they are and who they were for you. The gift that they shared with you, it is something so beautiful. And LOVE. Love big and bold, love people for exactly who they are, love without fear because authentic love never fades even when someone is gone. Love the strangers you see walking down the street, love the people you have in our life because one day they won’t be in your life or you won’t be in theirs. But leaving the impact of knowing you loved them and that they are loved. The gift lives on. The sadness of not sharing our gratitude for these people feels wrong and uncomfortable but I promise you, they know.

Have peace that when you love others authentically they know and you know. It doesn’t need to be said, connections do not need to be rekindled because they know. How overwhelmingly, amazingly beautiful that is.