Little Warriors

To feel the love of your child

means also to feel the heartbreak

when a child eventually moves away from their parent.

To feel the love of a pet

means also to feel the pain of them dying

when they grow older.

To feel the love of a partner

means also to feel the risk of putting your heart

in their hands.

We, as life, have evolved to feel deep love

and also deep pain.

Many choose to not feel love for something or someone

so they don’t have to feel the pain of losing it.

But the secret many forget

is that by choosing to feel pain so that we can love harder,

the pain eventually becomes more bearable.

Because choosing love in all aspects of life,

in every moment,

builds a little army of love within us.

Because when one pain arises

and wounds one little love warrior in your heart

the other little warriors are there to fight it.

But the only way to build our little army of love warriors

is by choosing to feel pain

so that we can love hard.

Choose your pain

so life doesn’t have to be painful.