The open heart
What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
Haruki Murakami
Don’t mask or deny your vulnerability: it is your greatest asset. Be vulnerable: quake and shake in your boots with it.
Stephen Russell
Lights of shared love at a friend’s recent birthday celebration
I love people who greet me with a big hug and a bright smile. Who doesn’t? These people light up our lives.
They are the safe havens of the world.
I really admire them. Their honest hearts are vulnerable. It’s hard to watch them get hurt, but when they do, they weep like a fierce storm and when it passes, the sun breaks out again.
I think I was naturally like that once. I was a chatterbox that never shut up and drove my mother crazy. I ran to breathlessly hug my Nana when she got out of the car.
Now I watch my words and guard my heart.
Life changes people, but it doesn’t have to. My good friends have seen me chase bubbles, dance in the summer rainfall, giggle till I can’t breathe and fall in and out of love.
If I just keep putting myself out there, I will remember how. It will come back to me.
I will quake and shake in my boots till then, but I will be brave.
I will be vulnerable.
Muchness 
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