World of Love
🖇️LTRUISM
There is no silence or ideal situation to express myself; only through my art can honesty thrive without judgment, without the whip of chastisement. I did not know the truth of love until she told to me. My composure was intact, but on the inside, I was melting. Living for so long and learning so much, yet love, eluded me. I never understood it, I never loved anyone, I never truly loved myself.
Do you now know, or is there more to discover? Is there more to learn from a faraway lover? Lover, is that word as applicable here? What does it mean? If loving yourself is the best way to love another, then to whom are you a lover?
Can you imagine an egg made of metal—not fully enclosed, not fully open, always cracking, always trying to hatch. With reciprocated love; these metal pieces can fall away at a moment's notice, and at other times, they can fit themselves back together again as if in reverse, contracting, closing off the light from the world, stifling.
Now you know that the things you say to someone are the same things you’re saying to yourself. If you say "I love you" to a person, you’re simultaneously saying you love yourself. If you say, "I want the very best for you," you’re saying it to yourself. What you say to them mirrors back to you, so say great things about people because you’re saying it to yourself. You become great by uplifting others, and the greater the person you lift up, the greater you become.
If they hate the lives they live, then how could they like living with you, how could they love you? Beware the mediocrity around you, from those who do not love themselves, for Jesus said, "love thy enemy as thyself." Is it so bad for others to accept you for who you are? is it so hard to accept the lover you are becoming?
In the absence of love, I could not focus, I could not listen to myself, and I could not see God.
If I don't love the person I become around you, then how could I love you?
Now, with some measure, I understand what love means. So, regardless of the shortcomings I see, to them I will say, "I love you."
If someone makes you feel bad, that's okay. Either you make them feel good, or make someone else feel good. Even it out, cancel it out, let nothing hold you back. Only one life, wouldn’t you rather use it up as much as possible? As long as you’re not hurting anyone, as long as you’re not hurting yourself.
I have discovered that love now goes beyond loving a person; it extends to everything around you, to the place you live, to the wildlife, to your job, your workouts, your entire life ahead and your past, it extends to everything you see because your eyes are clear, you wake to a whole new world — world of love. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"; this is why God is love.
©imuzi ryzoncity Oct 2023
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