There is Beauty in the Breakdown

Amy Nalette

"There is beauty in the breakdown.

The experience is shared by many across the world

The feeling of love and loss

There is beauty in the breakdown, it will enlighten, release those bricks of self doubt on your shoulders and instil comfort.

The breakdown creates a breakthrough

To take in the experience, grow and appreciate the love shared whether long, short, healthy or toxic, there is a lesson.

To see that the breakdown while a solitude experience is alongside many other

It becomes relatable, curable and forgivable and when enough time passes understandable

You will nurture your heart and tell it that while that heartbreak hurt and over-consumed you with grief and pain there are many still waiting to cross your path.

Maybe today, maybe tomorrow or ten months from now.

To take the chance and tell your heart to expose itself once again is the vulnerability that will require strength.

It will steady you, sharpen your perception and in the end fill your heart back up

We crash and collide in this world, with much love, laughter and yet much strife and rejection

Compatibility isn’t a one stop shop, you will be compatible with many, you will love with many, but you will be compatible and in love with a few lucky ones.

Few that may stick around forever, or just for a little while, there is a reason for each that contributes to the story in your life.

And while you are in the midst of the storm, take solice in the fact...

there is beauty in the breakdown.

Your loved ones will help you put the pieces of your heart back together, first with band aids, then with stitches of love, until the pain melds into a force that was never there before.

Always release and never bottle in, always remember that this too shall pass and always remember

there is beauty in the breakdown."

-M.Keil

Here is a little musical storyline for all the people out there who have loved and lost and carried on.

Never doubt your strength and never doubt your support systems, they are your life lines.

THE BREAKUP

Joshua Radin & Patty Griffin: You Got Growin' Up To Do

THE BEAUTY

Gravity: Sara Bareilles

THE FORCE

Christina Perri: Jar of Hearts

THE UNDERSTANDING

Let Him Fly: Patty Griffin

THE BREAKTHROUGH

I Found a Boy: Adele

XO

M

The Relief That Sighed

Fate has peculiar timing

When it is deemed to be yours or another’s

In less than a moment

A life can change

What seems routine today can be oblivious tomorrow

The present is a strange paradox of how you live, how you ought to live and how change can stake a fork in the road

One brief second

In one instant

Certain uncontrollable obstacles in place

To determine your fate …or mine

What was once mine, could have been no longer

What once was, could have been a past already being written

Life is kind, life is cruel, life is real

Life will pass you by if you let it

Take comfort in the inevitable

Like sand slipping through fingers, the chips will fall where they may

One gasping breath and the uncharted destination of the exhale

Enjoy now

Take solace in the confirmations of yesterday in all its bitter sweetness and realize tomorrow is undoubtedly unknown

As this is the dice we roll in the game of life

Love Token 91: How Do You Greet Your Day?

I greet my day with the appreciation of the following:

An inhale...an exhale

The ability to flutter my eyes and see the freshness a new day can bring

The stretch of my body from fingertips to toes

A sloppy kiss from my dog, a carefully executed kiss from my cat and a look of love from my other half

The comfort of a bed with cozy blankets

The security of having four walls to shelter me

The smell of fresh coffee being brewed

The sound of birds chirping

The senstation of my body slowly awakening

To take solice in the fact that life is trial and error and humanity is faulted but self-awareness and resolution can provide peace and movement.

The ability to be present, to live & love now

To memory bank yesterday, invest in today and put a deposit in for tomorrow

To think of all my loved ones with a smile and appreciation 

To allow nothing to anchor me in the past but to only help shape my future.

To live with intention and purpose...to feel ALIVE.

Image obtained via: Ice Cream Is Better With A Fork

Et tu?

xo

M

Happy Birthday To You Hub

A new chapter was beginning; a girl was changing direction in her life
A boy was turning a page

Heading toward the unknown, while butterflies of excitement and anticipation danced throughout their insides

The kisses good-bye from loved ones, the unpacking of old into new

A knock on the door, the exchange of glances; a smile and a sparkle

Two souls aligning, two paths joining and the start of their forever began

10 years of friendship, 9 years of love, 7 months of marriage and one constant feeling of peace.

Happy 31st Birthday Mr. K

Obtained via flickr: here

xo

M