Unconditional Love.

When young, I looked up to the elders in my life. My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles. They were my role models, they taught me how to live, and my youngest uncle, well he was ‘Batman’, or ‘Han Solo’, to my sister and I, the coolest person alive! As we grew older, and the illusion of youthful fantasies wear away, it can be hard to accept reality. Every family has a history. They laugh together, cry together, have good and bad times, and they all have skeletons in the closets. Every person, likewise, have qualities, good and bad, that make up their persona. The hardest challenge, for me, was the reality of life. The rose colored glasses being removed, seeing the whole person, and learning to love unconditionally. We can’t pick and choose, when loving someone. We may not like, or mesh well, with certain qualities of said person, but we love them regardless. This doesn’t mean overlooking dangerous behavior, or the like, it just implies an acceptance of the whole. It’s something I work on every day.