I frequently hear people talking about finding themselves, as if they had somehow lost touch with their essence.
I was fortunate enough to grow up in a very loving extended family comprised of my mother, sister, and maternal grandparents, in a culture that highly valued family cohesion. My daily life was surrounded by cousins, aunts, uncles, and family friends; there was never a lonely moment. For thirteen years, my grandparents instilled honourable values and principles upon me, resulting in a solid moral compass upon which I could faithfully rely to guide my life choices as I became a woman.
Leaving Trinidad at the age of twelve to establish a life in Canada meant leaving my grandparents behind. It was a very arduous moment in my life; however, I recognized and appreciated that the ideology I learned during my early childhood had become an integral component of my constitution, like DNA passed down from parents to their children.
Life events had forced me to mature at quite an early age and cultivated my resiliance to personally taxing circumstances. I credit the exposure to my family's interconnected nurturance with teaching me about the importance of family and the value of unconditional love. The one universal truth is that we all want to be loved. When you think about love, it typically begins with family. For many of us, our first experience of unconditional love began in the womb; our mothers loved us before ever seeing our innocent spirits. The love I felt from my family became my rock.
Writer, George Sand, wrote "there is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved." I have always believed this to be the defensible purpose to our existance. This blog will provide a forum offering a wonderfully diverse way to reconnect with our virtuous spirit and discover the meaning of love for ourselves. The incorporated quotes have been selected relative to their equivalence to my beliefs.
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