Beauty is found in its most genuine form during its most vulnerable moments.

To experience true beauty we must first understand what beauty means to us to begin with.

Unfiltered love is so rare these days. There are many different avenues and paths that love must travel through for us to feel valued. We struggle to put one foot in front of the other on our journey of self-discovery because the steps we take do not fill the ones that our expectations need them to. We cast a shadow on our ability to be better by blindly walking the path of everyone else. In doing so we bypass so many beautiful moments during our journey by committing to doing things “by the book”.

I never wanted to fit in. I want to simply be ok and be able to live in my own skin without worry or fear of what my mind would do next. I preferred the shadows at some point because I could no longer outline the chaos that shape-shifted through my daily endeavors. I did not understand how to see this with the lifestyle I had created. Over my time of living in darkness, the outline of my heart felt like a pebble that had created a void large enough to swallow a lifetime. There was a light that had always been present in my life which outlined a heart the size of mountains filled with endless love for the world. I learned to find love without looking for it by loving everything that I committed myself to.

We cannot be set free if we remain stuck in places where the past has held us. We must learn to love freely without expectation to create movement toward better times. Our most vulnerable moments are also capable of being our most precious ones. Love does not need to discover opportunity, but we always have the opportunity to discover love because it is always there.

What will you do today to recognize every living moment as one where beauty and love shine?