Out of all the words in the human language, Love is the most challenging to discuss. Because love is understood through feeling and emotion, there are simply not enough words in our human lexicon that fully encompass its meaning.

We can describe love through examples of love-like experiences-- anywhere ranging from the unconditional love we receive from family or friends, to the more romantic or intimate manifestations of love from our partners.

But these experiences of love are universally known, and have been spoken about enough anywhere from religious teachings, to poets, to romance novels and so on. What I'm more interested in talking about, is the type of love we don’t usually discuss; the love that makes us step outside our comfort zone.

I'm talking about vulnerable love.

Perhaps there was an awkward stage in your life where you found yourself hiding the true nature of your values, boundaries or beliefs to accommodate the values, boundaries or beliefs of others; or even yet, you were afraid that your own beliefs would be seen as weaknesses and rejected. But because you craved the love of the person whose affections you desired most, you did your best to hide your imperfections and carried on with a facade.

At some point in time in our lives we’ve all gone through some level of jumping through hoops to mask our inner vulnerabilities or insecurities. But it’s for the reasons we do it in the first place, that's most fascinating.

Love is how we arrived in this carnation here in the physical world and Love is how we leave it when we’re finished here on earth. In between that time we experience love every day from nature which gives us love freely and yet never ever utters the words you owe me.

But, we have managed to introduce selfish love into our society. We have created a checks and balances system that regulates how we give or receive love from one another. And in some cases we have even created unrealistic expectations for how our loved ones earn our love.

But all that has come from this system of love, has been a contrived duty to please others; to put our own unadulterated feelings on the proverbial back-burner and let others dictate how we should love and be loved.

We feel hesitant to show our true selves and convince ourselves that no one will ever love us if we reveal the most fragile and imperfect parts of ourselves.

As individuals overtime, we mask our vulnerabilities as to be accepted and loved by those around us, almost a false kind of love if you will. To be free like nature and nurture we need to Let Our Vulnerabilities Evolve and seek true unconditional Love.

If those vulnerability are not cherished and respected you've been shown everything you need to know. This just means this is not right for your unconditional love. It doesn't mean right or wrong it just means you've experienced true Love or Not. Be true to self and share your love without conditions; if its returned, you are home with that experience, as to truly Love is to be one with Nature. Open mind, Open Heart with an attachment to nothing. That’s Love.

Decker