I ask you, what’s more important than true connection? With it, we have the ability to cultivate a life with weight and girth, a beautifully robust life. Foster healthy relationships built upon trust, respect, kindness, and honesty, but only when we allow the most vulnerable selves to be seen. Open ourselves completely to the energy of another and give and receive without judgment. Trust and feel safe. Connection can be that which gets you through the rough patches and the difficult conversations, and lifts you up on days you feel less than yourself. Connection strengthens us. It makes us feel valued and heard. Connection can also heal, and remind us we aren’t alone; there is nothing more powerful than when someone hears the song inside you.
“When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.”
It is a modern irony that we live in a society that has so many ways to connect, so many ways to reach out, and yet we rarely put forth the effort to build connections. We talk, post, blog, and say nothing. Unfortunately, we’ve become increasingly more insular and cut off, cyber recluses. Connections take effort, they take time. Connections are investments and need to be nurtured.
“Real relationships are the product of time spent, which is why so many of us have so few of them.”
Many things, you’ll discover in time, can be short-lived. Physical attraction, money, success, and the boxes and boxes of stuff we buy to fill our misunderstood needs. A connection can transcend all that. If you find someone who gets you, listens to your heart, your fears, your everything. Someone whom you can drop your armor, be yourself, and see your worth. Someone who shares with you a mental and even spiritual connection, someone who stirs your soul and inspires you. That is when you will see the greatness of connection, that is when you’ll know true intimacy.
~Ali