While no one ever said that life was easy, no one ever said it was hard either.  You see, everything in life is based off of perspective.  Nothing can ever be written in stone with accuracy, because we have all formed our own conceptions of what we believe reality to be.  Seeing the world through my own eyes has allowed me to realize that certainty will always be nonexistent in a world like ours.

Nothing can ever be guaranteed, and while it is frightening, I am not scared.  At one point I was.  Every now-and-then, I still am.  I worry about letting people in and being too vulnerable.  About not being enough.  About the changes the future has in store.  But in this moment, I’ve learned not to be afraid, and I’ve realized that it is possible for someone to see me as more than I have ever seen myself.

While I am an artist by nature and a beauty by heart, I am also a prisoner by mind who is falling apart.  You know I have lost myself over the last few years, but instead of turning your back to me, you have pushed yourself closer and offered to help carry the weight of my problems.  To help me climb mountains when before I was struggling to climb hills.  

…most people will say that we are too young.  That we don’t know what it means to be in love.  That it’s unlikely that we will get married and start our own family.  That it is unlikely that we will be together when our skin starts to wrinkle and when we are struggling for our last breathes.  I’m not saying that they are wrong.  I’ve seen how easily love can break.  

But for the first time in my life, I refuse to think of the what-ifs.  Because in this moment, I love you.  And that will always be enough.