*This blog was written in a few hours. It started with a thought on the long drive home from work.
August 31, 2019
We walk together on the trail along the shores of our favorite lake. It's a beautiful day. The sky is a true blue. The sun glistens off the water, casting a shimmering light off her hazel eyes. The sight of her always makes my day truer than this moment. This is our life unfiltered and without social media posts. You can have your Instagram fallacy.
Holding her hand in my hand isn't enough. Delving into her mind doesn't bring her close enough to my soul. Inhaling the same air as she encapsulates me. Does she realize how much I need her?
I don't give in to my feelings very often. I'm not much into vulnerability. I'd rather make up an excuse for the tears in my eyes rather than show weakness. But I can't fend her inquires off very good. She knows how to read me and can decode the signals I'm giving off. It feels so good to be known.
She needs a man, not a child. She knows that she has a man who takes care of her even though she is strong enough on her own. We are a team. We strive off each other. She doesn't go without, and she knows she herself has emotions that won't go unrecognized by her man. This guy understands her completely.
I won't argue with her without cause. Not to justify an argument between us, but I will challenge her, and she will challenge me so there's a balance of compromise and admiration when one of us cedes to the other's point of view. Our respect is mutual for our relationship to survive. Just like our walks hand in hand. So do our conversations.
Rumors and gossip run rampant on Facebook, Twitter (X), and Instagram because people enjoy running off at the mouth. But their lives are as fake as the pictures of happiness in their posts. The haters like to post their own lives of falsehoods and whine judgment of ours. They needn't worry about us because, while we see your post on social media, we chuckle while we live our best life off the grid.
People come and go in life, and all of us must share our precious time with those who want to enjoy life together. It's not worth fighting and bending over backward for those who don't want to engage but choose to seek and destroy joy. But then it also isn't worth the time and energy to shut them out when they come back into our world hat in hand. We will allow them to come and go as much as they want; as long as we stay true to who we are, it won't matter how they react to us in the future because, in the end, our conscience is clean.
While we walk around our favorite path near this lake and realize down the path of life, we will always marvel at how this moment is ours, and no one else's so. We are thankful God put us together.
It's much better to live our best life than choosing one of our 100 selfies to post on social media so our virtual friends will scroll quickly past and arbitrarily like our post. You can have your digital path. We choose to experience life unfiltered.
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