In Society we can feel so alone. There is a place we can go to that makes us feel safe. For most of us it is not physical, but can feel so real we don't want to leave it.

We find ourselves getting lost in the walls we have built for our safety. The greatest moments (and normally the scariest) are when we can let someone into our sanctuaries.

This is a view of my inner walls. Take a look through my stained glass past the masquerade at midnight.

Whether you like what you find isn't important. These are the inside of my walls. I just pray they move you to build your own Stained Glass Windows inside your own sanctuaries. Follow fluerdelis on Twitter

Instinct

As Humans, we are instinctive creatures.At our core, there are two essential elements-to love and to live.

Our cultural focus is so greatly placed on love, particularly with romance, that we forget to fully live our lives. Especially since the average person doesn’t really get what it means to love. If we understood the full depths of “I love you”, then a lot of things would be right in the world. Divorce wouldn’t be so high, and we would not feel the pressure of defining ourselves by our relationship status.

Yet, we bow to the ideals created in fairy tales and dreams.

Why can’t we embrace the other types of love in our life? The joys of hard work….the beauty of friendships…the assembly of words on a page….so many other things are lost to the White Knight of Happily Ever After.

Look at Romeo and Juliet. They could not live without love, so they did not live at all. Romantic, right? Wrong. They are dead. They wasted the greatest gift in the world and went against the essence of their humanity.

Don’t take me for a Prince-Slayer. I believe it is important to believe in romance and true love. The true love of commitment, sincerity, and vulnerability, that has you staring aimlessly into each others eyes when you are old and grey. Despite the effects of emotional porn we consume everyday, it is a terrible site of a creature who has given up totally on love. A difficult road to stray from. It’s a road I wouldn’t wish my worst enemy to travel.

I simply fear so many are missing out on experiencing all of the beautiful things that are meant for us. Our individual experiences can bring lives together in so many ways. The most beautiful can be romance. Feeding into our instinct to live can place our lives in the position it was meant to be. It can even place our hearts to unexpectedly find the love only a significant other can give.

You’ll will never know until you embrace the driving element of human nature. It doesn’t matter what your relational status is. Go live. We we’re all meant to live for more than mere existence.  

Posted on November 30th, 2011
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