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Helen Quail's avatar

You’re a wave. You’ve always been a wave. And waves don’t need completion. They need to stop collapsing into shapes that fit other people’s containers. 🌊🙏🏻 yes

Dea Devidas's avatar

Yesss 💛 The ocean never once said "sorry I'm too much." 🌊✨

Helen Quail's avatar

Indeed!

RG she/her's avatar

Wow, this is incredible Dea. You write so eloquently, and so deeply and it's so genuine. I can really sense that every word is really hard-won wisdom, truth. You are so right: once we learn we are the love we seek, the whole universe changes. You are extraordinary and so generous to share this.

I love that frozen clear lake image - that burst of clarity - oooof - sends shivers down my spine!!

And to not get hung up on his departure, that is truly so impressive.

It's so funny because I was talking to a good friend TODAY, and we agreed that we both knew that we were enough, without a man, without all the angst and needing "someone to complete us", as if we were merely a jigsaw puzzle piece, or a broken part of a circuit. No. And the cultural/mainstream crap about romance and "love", particularly for women, is that we are incomplete without it. Lies.

Dea Devidas's avatar

"Lies." One word. Whole thesis.

The mainstream romance script was never written for women. It was written to keep us waiting by the door. You already walked out. So did your friend. That conversation you had today? That's the real love story.

Thank you for reading this deeply, for the shivers, for reflecting it back even deeper. Means more than you know. 💛