Have You Ever Found the True Measure of Love?
When people look at you as though they’re measuring you, try to remember the true measure of love.
You were not meant to be measured
There are people who look at you as though they’re measuring you. They try to sum up your worth just by looking at what they see. They ask questions. They intrude upon your life. It’s as though they’ve been sent to tell you you’ve been weighed but you never really passed.
Have you ever felt like that? That you have been assessed against a checklist and you have failed to pass with your final score? You were never talented enough. You were never strong enough. You were never good enough.
In the end, however, you must ask, “Who had the right to measure me?”
By whose standards were you supposed to live your life? By whose checklist were you supposed to fit in?
Love doesn’t care about checklists
Those who love you don’t care at all about checklists. They know you for who you really are and they accept you just the same. Those who love you are not there to measure you. They are there to tell you that when one loves, one loves without measure.
