Short Stories Told By A Witch

Never Be Afraid

There is something to be said for love, while you have it, it's beautiful. It's always a ride up and down a rollercoaster, no matter who you're in love with. It's like a candle you decide to light and set down and watch. That's the thing about candles though, they burn out, leaving wax spread out on the tray in front of you and the flame is gone. You're left with a mess you can't clean up. When that flame goes out, you should just smile, and remember all the time that candle was lit. Treasure the memories and walk away. No one can ever take that candle from you because it was yours to burn. We become bits and pieces of every person we chose to love, every person we chose to give a small part of who we are too. Our lives are mosaics of melted candles. Our personalities are the burnt out wicks that no longer serve a purpose but carry with us anyway. Every time we chose love, even if it doesn't last we win. We won because we chose to share a part of our lives with someone else, we chose to allow ourselves, to take the risk of getting hurt to get to know someone on an entirely different level. Here's to the love I've had, the love I've lost. Here's to all the people in my past who became a part of my mosaic I call life, the wicks in my pocket, and helping me become myself. I'm no where near done growing as a person, no one ever is. We learn how to love completely over time, we learn who we are bits and pieces at a time, no matter how old we are. Never be afraid to love, never be afraid to put that burnt candle in your mosaic, and when given the chance, always chose love and compassion over anything else.Through love, I have learned I am so much more then human. I am a healer, I am a hunter and my heart calls for so much more then any one person can ever provide. I am meant to learn lessons the hard way, and often painful, to experience the sufferings of others in it's complete form. Only then can my heart bleed for them, and only then can I understand who they are, what they've seen, and how they feel. 

Love, for me, is something I give freely. To people I don't even know, I am that person that no one knows "what it is" about me. I draw them in, the people who have fallen off their paths. The people who are not yet who they are supposed to be. 

I find more often then not, they haven't become who they should be, because they don't allow their candles to burn out fully. They decide to carry them lit all over the world. You can't fully be free to become who you're meant to be while carrying them while they are lit. You just cause yourself a bigger fire. 

People often make the mistake to carry that flame with them still burning. It's why they can't move past a moment in their life. Let that candle burn out, and carry with you the lessons, the smiles and the tears from that moment. Let yourself hurt, let yourself feel your way through this life, with open arms and open hearts. 

Human beings are meant to always evolve, and become greater then we are. That's what I was raised to believe, I will be the first to tell you this is false. If you're always trying to be more, you never appreciate what's in front of you. You could be missing candles you need to add to your mosaic. You aren't stopping to admire the beauty in life around you. 

We all notice those old couples in the  coffee shop. We admire them from afar, but what we fail to understand, is these two beautiful people sat down and worked through things we couldn't even dream of. They have cried many tears, for each other, for friends and loved ones. They have learned to light new candles when the old ones burn out. Yes, even with each other over time they lit new candles. Every phase of your life is a new candle, a new colour, a new beautiful part of you emerging from everything. Those older couples lived through war, they lived through the world going dark, they fought for their love through time and distance and horrors. That's why today they can sit in that coffee shop, smiling, holding hands and you can see and feel the love radiating off them. 

New candles can always be lit for your life and your relationships, even when that first candle burns out. Each time you and your love over come some sort of big hurdle in life, you are lighting a new candle. You two have grown from learning from that situation, and that is also added into your mosaic. The hardest lessons leave us with the most beautiful scars, even when it comes to love. 

No relationship is easy, it's full of pain, suffering, fighting and passion. If the relationship you're in is toxic and there is no learning, then stop relighting that dead candle. Let the wax cool, add it to your life mosaic and learn from it. Learn what you want, what you need and learn to love yourself enough to leave that candle alone and not relight it again. 

Life is your love mosaic. What does it look like? Is it full of all the colours of the people you've let in your life? Or have you decided to keep one  candle re light far to long? Only you can decide how you are going to grow. 

This life is yours to chose, yours to live, and yours to grow into. Just remember, everyone in your life, shapes you as well. Always be greatful for the lessons.