So I hate to break it to you, but I've never actually hugged a porcupine.
But if you follow the analogy I'm going to make...I have.
So bear with me for a minute while I explain away.
Relationships are incredibly complicated.
Our friendships, romantic relationships, and even acquaintances can be complicated at times. People are naturally messy and life adds its own messiness to it many times. It's a miracle we can even get along in the first place.
Then throw in people's past experiences into the pot with a dash of ego and we have even more of a miracle that we can get along.
But there's something really to be said about "being there" for people despite all of the complexities of life. There's something to be said for being someone's rock when everything seems to be falling apart around them.
We can't do this thing called life all by ourselves. We have to have people there to support us when we are down and when we really need a helping hand.
However, that takes some serious vulnerability.
It's going to take you breaking down your walls and barriers and really confiding in someone else. You don't censor your life. You don't hide the nasty parts of your character. You just show people who you are.
So what's the really beautiful part about this?
You give someone the opportunity to love you just the way you are and just the way you aren't.
You become imperfectly perfect to them and they love you to death for knowing all of those flaws you've so desperately tried to hide from the world.
We are all thirsting for a type of love that allows us to feel truly loved.
People can be pretty prickly at times...like a porcupine...especially when their lives get really hard.
Give those people a hug.
No matter what is going on in a persons life, let them know that they are loved and that they have support.
That's true love.
That's not asking someone to be anything but who they are.
That's what life is all about.
That's what we all really deserve.
But if you follow the analogy I'm going to make...I have.
So bear with me for a minute while I explain away.
Relationships are incredibly complicated.
Our friendships, romantic relationships, and even acquaintances can be complicated at times. People are naturally messy and life adds its own messiness to it many times. It's a miracle we can even get along in the first place.
Then throw in people's past experiences into the pot with a dash of ego and we have even more of a miracle that we can get along.
But there's something really to be said about "being there" for people despite all of the complexities of life. There's something to be said for being someone's rock when everything seems to be falling apart around them.
We can't do this thing called life all by ourselves. We have to have people there to support us when we are down and when we really need a helping hand.
However, that takes some serious vulnerability.
It's going to take you breaking down your walls and barriers and really confiding in someone else. You don't censor your life. You don't hide the nasty parts of your character. You just show people who you are.
So what's the really beautiful part about this?
You give someone the opportunity to love you just the way you are and just the way you aren't.
You become imperfectly perfect to them and they love you to death for knowing all of those flaws you've so desperately tried to hide from the world.
We are all thirsting for a type of love that allows us to feel truly loved.
People can be pretty prickly at times...like a porcupine...especially when their lives get really hard.
Give those people a hug.
No matter what is going on in a persons life, let them know that they are loved and that they have support.
That's true love.
That's not asking someone to be anything but who they are.
That's what life is all about.
That's what we all really deserve.
About the Author:
Evan Sanders is a professional life coach at AYKME coaching. Dive into these great Kindness Quotes http://thewordsofencouragement.com/kindness-quotes/ or these Sympathy Quotes http://thewordsofencouragement.com/sympathy-quotes/ to get some motivation to move forward!
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