For the longest time.
I thought I was useless and unlovable.

But I realize now that all my endured pain can be channeled to understand another.
Aren't all our stories colored by sorrows and regrets?
Haven't we all felt misunderstood and mistreated?
What is holding us back from moving forward?
And why do our hearts ache at night?

What if I told you healing never happens by thyself.
What if it takes two.
What if you can be fully accepted?

Tonight, I learnt to love unconditionally, perhaps for the first time.
You are simply required to be yourself.
Simply desiring to spend time with another.
No hidden agendas.
No ulterior motives.
Fully vulnerable.
Fully welcoming everything that is of the other person.
And cynicism can be defeated.
Shame can be overcome.

Let it flow.

Be intrinsically driven.
Be a witness to another's simple expression of joy.
And let their humanity catalyze the spring concealed within your winter jacket.

Love can be so simple.
What rules.
What boundaries.
The transparency of being human.
A few interrogative sentences.
And one simple affirmative sentence.

"I understand."

The things that I have.
Why should I keep them just for myself?
Whatever I have, share.
Two people might not have much separately.
But together, there's abundance.
And there's reciprocity.
Interdependence.
Attachment
Affection.
Intimacy.
So get aboard this friend ship.
And let the broken sail carry us far.
Deep.
In the oceans of life.

Know that the future is not too far.
Our purpose not too obscure.
It is within our grasp.
Within our field of vision.
Let me tell you what I see

A person.
To love.