When True Love Arrives

You won’t be able to run.

You will want to. Every fiber in your being will be urging you to turn around and bolt away full speed ahead.

But you won’t be able to.

For the first time, in a long time, your feet will finally feel rooted to the ground and you will realize that you’re already firmly planted.

When true love arrives, there will be no butterflies.

In place of your familiar fluttering friends, you feel the sturdy wave of an overwhelming calm wash over you.

It won’t be like in the movies Hollywood spins.

Unlike you’ve been told, it won’t be “when you least expect it”. It will happen organically, in the middle of your life’s regularly scheduled programming. There won’t be fireworks and moments of staggering epiphanies; no rapture trumpets or Big Bang.

For the first time, you will feel a love that makes you see clearly not only fifty years into the future after all the work has been done, but next year and the year after with all the hurdles, bumps, twists and turns.

But, you won’t be scared. Okay, you’ll be terrified but you’ll have a certainty, a fullness of confidence in yourself, in your love and this person you’ve found yourself rooted in.

When true love arrives you will feel content. All the fears, all the pain, all the hurt will be numb. All your scars will heal. Your broken heart will find mending.

All the work you’ve done to bring yourself to this point will finally find validation. You will finally make peace with all the late nights laying awake and all tears pooling in your ears and all the stupid fucking sons of bitches, who are now just people from your past it didn’t just work out with.

You’re not angry anymore. You’re not wounded anymore. You’re not that person anymore.

When true love arrives, so will you.

Not because love is the supreme goal but because true love will only arrive when you let it in, when you’re ready.

It won’t be how you always dreamed or who you’ve always imagined, but you will feel how you’ve always hoped and be where you’ve always believed.

True love doesn’t arrive “exactly when it’s supposed to”. So when true love arrives, cherish it. Say “Welcome. I haven’t been waiting for you, but I’m glad you’re here now.”