Imagine

I recently returned home from a beautiful vacation in Mexico. The weather was perfect, the water was an amazing turquoise blue, the sand was white and I had the best company a gal could ask for! It was a perfect time away.

Even though everything was as perfect as it could be, what I will remember most is a scene I saw the day before I was coming home. My partner and I were eating breakfast and this cute little girl around 2 years old was sitting at the table in front of us with her parents. The resort we stayed at was a family resort and there were lots of sweet little kids around, but this little cutie was something else! Her mom had her on her lap to feed her, and all of a sudden, this little tot leaped off her mother's lap and quickly clasped the hand of a four year old boy! They both were smiling at their families as they proudly held each others' hands like they had just won the lottery. She shyly was pulling her dress above her head and he looked around the room like he was escorting a debutant to the ball and they were on stage for all to see. They continued like that and played together in the restaurant for the remainder of our breakfast. It was so precious!

This was such a beautiful raw act of connection. There was no dancing around trying to impress, hide, or be someone they weren't. They liked each other and they knew it, and they were happy.

There are many different beliefs as to why we are here and what this life is about. This is mine: that we are all here looking for each other. We are here to love. When I looked at those two children I saw what honest love looks like when it's not complicated by trying to protect our fragile sense of self. It made me think how much easier our lives would be if we could only remember what it was like to love when we were young, before we complicated things to try and make ourselves so hard to love. As John Lennon sang: "You may say I'm a dreamer. But I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one."