Water Petals

By Maggie Rose

This is my life, the good and the bad, and everything in between. Love, pain, growing, and discovering. I hope that people uncover more about themselves when reading about my journey.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Sep 27, 2019
• ISBN: 9780578584041

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1. Love

This is a feeling that we are introduced to from birth and some might say even before that. We are born into love, we are surrounded by love, we encompass love. This is all we know. It is a celebration of life and every day is a blessing. We are born and we are the reason why, in that moment, others feel love. This is the first emotion that we feel as a human being. How to love and what exactly that means. How to give and express love and also how to receive love. How to make sense of a feeling and try and explain that feeling. How a feeling can cause other actions or feelings? We see love everywhere and every day. In other people’s lives and in our own. Love is a constantly evolving emotion that makes its way through the lives of many. This great feeling and emotion that makes up human beings. To feel love is to understand its meaning. How you can describe and define it but to feel it is an entirely different understanding of the term. To be swept away by love, surprised by love, taken away and driven by love. To share this feeling with someone is almost unexplainable.

A concept we understand from birth but an experience we are never prepared for. When you are so in love with someone, that you only think of this other person. The moment when you realize you are in love, it consumes you. It fills you up with joy and happiness and you are completely taken by love. Your heart beats faster, your blood begins to pump, your body becomes warmer, your adrenaline is going, and your mind is racing with memories of this person, who they are and how much you love them. You are not sure how it happened, how long it will last, or if it will happen again, but this physical and emotional experience makes you who you are. Love makes us understand a little more of what being human really means. I think it means to put love before anything else. That is the concept that we were born into and that is the first thing we understood as humans. I believe, that is the only thing we need in this life, to continue to be ourselves and to be human. It is to love.

Dear Momma

You have shown me so many things

Taught me lessons about love and life

What I have learned the most from you

Is what it means to have strength

How it is not just about being strong

To be unapologetically yourself

Following the stars

Always following your heart

Protecting and loving is your nature

That is what you are made of

Miracles and super powers

An ear to listen and understand

A voice of reason in my ears

Shoulders for heads and tears

Every single thing in between

I can never thank you enough

For you and all of your love

Supporting and encouraging me

To believe in my dreams

To work hard every day

Never let anything stand in my way

Being a part of my journey along the way

There will never be enough words to say

I love you momma

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