You are spectacular.

I don’t tell you often enough, and I’m so sorry for that, but I do. I really, really do.  Trying to harness and reign in the sheer vastness of what you are that, to put it mildly, and overly simple, makes me a better person for knowing you, for having been loved by you, overwhelms me to the point of paralysis.  

Almost.  

Because you need cluing into this universal secret that everyone in your orbit already knows, and existing one single second more without you helping author and spin your own epic would do the world such a disservice.

I know.  Right now you’re thinking “this is crazy. I’m not special or remarkable,” and, you’re right.  Special and remarkable pale in comparison to the blinding light of love and laughter that stands as your beacon, drawing in the friends and loved ones you collect like lost ships at sea who finally, after listing and heeling and drifting aimlessly, find your calm shores, a welcome port in life’s storm to rest and love and be loved.  By you.

You’ve been told you’re “too much”, but has anyone ever described the sea as too vast?  Too immense?  Too strong?  Too deep or too powerful?  Never, because there exist no such limits of capacity. No one questions the ferocity of a mother grizzly, the pull of the tide by the moon, the random and total destruction of a hurricane, or the medicinal, calming salve of a tiny baby’s coo.  I count you among these irrefutable forces. Be. As you are. All of you.  

Doubt plagues your beautiful soul, but I challenge you here, today, to acknowledge you as the source of your infinite power.  The keeper and realization of your dreams, the translator of potential into reverence.  The dreamer and lover and doer.  Manifest what is meant for you and lean in.  Listen.  Go be curious. Be wrong. Fail spectacularly. Choose courage, choose bravery, and most of all, choose to soar above the criticism and skepticism rampant in the world and rise above the noise to be everything you’ve ever imagined, and all that I already know you are. 

Love,

Me