And explaining that feeling to someone who has never experienced it is quite the task....but to be known is to be accepted. To be understood. To be seen when you need to be seen and invisible when you need to be invisible. It's to be you without holding back for whatever reason. It's to be recognized and loved.
It's to be known.
In my opinion, this is quite possibly one of the hardest things about life. We will never truly know anybody. Heck, will we ever truly know ourselves? It's rather frightening, because we desire that close relationship with people. If not for pure comfort, than for the sense of accomplishment that comes with that level of intimacy, because to really get to know someone, takes a lot of effort on our part.
But you know what? This is also the most wonderful part of life! That you are so completely unique, so utterly rare, such an odd conglomeration and mish-mash of things is completely individual. YOU are the only YOU in the 7,083,280,365 people on Earth right now. (yeah, I looked it up) Our complexities, the reason it's so hard to know someone, makes us hard to figure out! And that's beautiful; because it means that you don't define yourself by what other people define themselves by. You have your own set of rules.
{Yes, I realize the picture is blurry.}
So be hard to figure out! Be inconsistent, irrational and individual. It's totally okay to want a motorcycle , hate parties and have an strange obsession with the small counterparts of larger objects (mini-cookware, anyone?). It's okay to be you, in fact, it's better. Goodness knows the world has enough people who are all trying to fit the "mold" of who we should be.
God sure as heck didn't decide to make me so you could look like Sarah or be more outgoing like Julia. He made you hard to figure out.
And friends, that's the best news I've heard all day.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
-Oscar Wilde
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