LOVE & LOSS

My, my. It certainly has been a while since I've reached out. Truthfully, I think I've been avoiding this since I fell into an extended art block which evidentially turned into "giving it up". Whether that's temporary or permanent is undecided, but hopefully if its meant to be, it'll find its way back into my life.

But I'm here on a somewhat similar topic: love and its partner, loss.

Its no secret that this world is about give and take. The very foundation of "yin and yang" revolves around the idea of opposites that need each other to exist. There's simply no love without loss and vise versa. Now, this is where you find out if you're a half-empty or half-full kind of person, because the outlook is tricky.

Regardless of where your focus lies, love and loss are felt more in our everyday lives, whether we choose to see that. I use love and loss very loosely in definition though. While I could use my recent break up as a convenient, and easy comparison, its bigger than that. This difference in mindset is actually one of the reasons we broke up in the first place. Here it is:

I don't fear loss anymore. In fact, I feel love for it.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that a heartbreak is somehow satisfying to me. It always rips me apart because I put my all into everything I love. But, one of the things I have to be grateful for is knowing that with every loss, love is right around the corner to begin the healing and start me towards something better; it always has. Love and loss represent everything in my life; art, work, family, relationships, hell, even foxes; okay, especially foxes.

My point being, while the suffering of loss sucks, It's always comforting to think that love is just around the corner to make it better. I think if more people saw it that way, we'd be less afraid of losing what we have and look forward to what comes next.

To love, and loss, and what comes next!

Jackie Marie xoxo