Tuesday, January 11, 2022

"...Epic..."

"Epic Love is defined more broadly than just romantic love. It's not exclusively about falling in love as amazing and intoxicating as that is with another person, but it's way bigger than that. It's a state of being an action, an attitude, an experience, and our very make-up. It's also comprised of so much more than just one -significant other- relationship. It's the whole thing, a 360 degree kind of experience, and it's all around us."

"To make it perfectly clear, epic love that I've found is the love and connections that don't just change me and my life, or change my partner and their life, but it changes the whole world, and everything including my definition of what is possible, real and matters which is a lot to ask, to expect, and to hope for. Yet, I want to believe that this of love exists. The love that gets all the way into our bones and stays there for eternity and infinity. It changes something inside of me, that brings me to my best self, the kind of just -everything feels right-. So the only way I'm going to believe it that it exists is to live in it by myself."

"So, the journey that I'm undertaking is no mundane journey. It's not just about swiping a profile onto some online dating sites, crossing my fingers, holding my nose, kissing some frogs, and hoping for the best. It's a big fat NO! This is way deeper, broader, and richer. This is about the devotional expedition which is required to be really ready so that I can bring all of myself, unedited and unabashed to that love. But wait a second, there's more..."

"On top of everything else, I want this process to be fun, like off the charts fun. I want to find love to be as much fun as having love where I'm enjoying every step of the way, and in delighted anticipation of what will come next."

"In many ways, I anticipate that this will be a huge journey where I start out a little unenthusiastic, discourage along the way, meet allies and gain tools, face a demon or two, and finally come back with wisdom to share. So I bet on the way to loving someone else, I will come to love myself more than every before; the real self, the deep self, and the whole."

"Besides, I'm planing to share the good, the bad, and the ugly all through here. Why am I doing that? People might ask, why do I tell the whole world about one of the most intimate and vulnerable processes? Well, as I mentioned at the the top of this post, when I risk, when I'm vulnerable, when I share my whole self with the world, that is when I bring my best self, and in releasing my process and experiences, my adventure, my discoveries... I'm hoping that there are people out there who get inspired by it, inspired to start their own search for epic love which might mean dating, might mean rekindling the epic love in your current partnership, might mean finding the epic love got yourself of it all, or anything in between. In hearing my story, I want them to know that they are not alone, that it doesn't have to be scary or painful, and that there is Hope..."

 - Unknown -