Love is not reserved for when somebody “chooses you”.
Love is not reserved for being in love with another.
The permission comes when we fall in love.
Allegra Messina
I bet you’re free to see where this is going.
As humans, we are all destined to experience heartbreak.
The Im in love glow is gone, and with it went the rose-colored lenses.
You dont see love everywhere, and in fact, you dont see it anywhere.
The dark cloud of heartbreak and loneliness feels like its here to stay.
Id venture to say that every one of you reading this has been there.
Ive also had a series of spiritual and soul awakenings that taught me some things about love.
First of all, love lost is very poetic and all, but love is never lost.
Ive already told you where it is.
Its inside of you, bubbling with abundancealways, whether or not youve stopped the flow.
Second, we treat love like it is a faucet that somebody else has the controls to.
They can turn it on and they can turn it off.
The flow of love is not controlled by a faucet.
It cannot be turned on and off.
We are never lacking love.
It is always available from the bountiful fountain inside of us.
So why do we shut it down?
Why do we insist upon keeping that putty nearby so we can seal the overflow before anybody sees?
As humans and living beings on Earth, we are created in the divine.
By nature, we are love.
By nature, we are abundance.
Why on Earth would you stop the flow of something so beautiful andfun?
What is wrong withthem?
All things on this planet are energy.
Energy is never created nor destroyed, only transmuted.
I knew I was going toneedit.
I realized I was going to have to release the love.
Still committed to walking through fear, I burned the putty once and for all.
I immediately fell in love with something elsetwo things, actually.
I fell in love with myself and I fell in love with life.
I am in love and its not the romantic storybook love we were taught.
I am completely enamored with life.
I get chills at the thought of making more memories like them.
I also started to notice all of the things I love about myself.
I noticed and fell in love with my own strength and my own beauty.
Love is not reserved for when somebody chooses you.
Love is not reserved for beinginlove with another.
You have to let the love fountain flow out of you all of the time.
How do you do that?
You have to look for it.
You dig out those rose-colored glasses and you wear them.
You go out of your way to fall in love with what surrounds you.
When you start looking for things to fall in love with, thats exactly what youll see.
Romantic love is beautiful, and how lucky are we to experience such an incredible adventure?
But thats not the only love.
It is what is natural.
And it does, as long as you dont stop it.
Romantic love is an incredible aspect of life; it is not the only aspect of life.
When you stop the flow of love, youre preventing yourself from so much more.
I know what its like to be in love, and I know what its like to be heartbroken.
The Greeks believe in eight different kinds of love.
Heartbreak affects one kind of love; it does hurt and it will hurt for a while.
Let the other kinds of love heal it.
Eros is the pop in of love that will sting when your romantic relationship ends.
At first, this will not come naturally.
When your eros is hurting, you will likely shut down as a product of habit.
Youre going to have to gather the strength to remember these other kinds of love.
Love is not something that comes and goes.
It is not something that can be lost.
It is not something that somebody else has the ability to light inside of you.
It is always in you, always abundant, always flowing; your job is to let it.
This is your job because it is your nature and your purpose to live with love and joy.
to make it live a soul-driven, thrilling, cant-wait-to-get-out-of-bed life, you have to movefromlove.
I want you to live a soul-driven, thrilling, cant-wait-to-get-out-of-bed life.
So c’mon, dont wait to be chosen to fall in love.
Fall in love with yourself.
Fall in love with your life.
