I went to visit a friend today at Victoria's Secret, where I used to work. That store was more a home to me than any house I have ever known. How could that be? It was the people with whom I had worked, and dared to share my true stupid-self. Never did I feel more free to be Me, or more loved than I did in that small little store!
I visit on occassion, just to say hi to my former boss and buddy, and to buy some of my all-time favorite items. I'm loyal that way. Pound Pups usually are. We tend to go back to the places we feel most loved and appreciated... where we feel like we are one within the family.
Belonging to someone, and having a sense of origin is important. It validates we are worth keeping and loving.
For those who doubt that sense of home or belonging for themselves, and for those who second-guess their being loved by another, I wish you a change of heart, and sense of perspective. I hope this holiday season fills you with pieces and moments filled with fullness knowing, no one in this world is truly alone, unless that person chooses isolation.
Just once I would love to sit at the family table, and tell it like it is, as I remember all the holidays being with my family during the holidays. But that wouldn't be the very "Christian" thing to do, would it?
Just once I would like not to have to choke-down a meal, just to please those who thought they were the best thing since sliced bread, just because they chose to adopt a child for themselves.
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I went to visit a friend today at Victoria's Secret, where I used to work. That store was more a home to me than any house I have ever known. How could that be? It was the people with whom I had worked, and dared to share my true stupid-self. Never did I feel more free to be Me, or more loved than I did in that small little store!
I visit on occassion, just to say hi to my former boss and buddy, and to buy some of my all-time favorite items. I'm loyal that way. Pound Pups usually are. We tend to go back to the places we feel most loved and appreciated... where we feel like we are one within the family.
Belonging to someone, and having a sense of origin is important. It validates we are worth keeping and loving.
For those who doubt that sense of home or belonging for themselves, and for those who second-guess their being loved by another, I wish you a change of heart, and sense of perspective. I hope this holiday season fills you with pieces and moments filled with fullness knowing, no one in this world is truly alone, unless that person chooses isolation.
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Just once I would love to sit at the family table, and tell it like it is, as I remember all the holidays being with my family during the holidays. But that wouldn't be the very "Christian" thing to do, would it?
Just once I would like not to have to choke-down a meal, just to please those who thought they were the best thing since sliced bread, just because they chose to adopt a child for themselves.