Dragon Slayers

I have always been a romantic at heart, I grew up watching how Princes would wield their swords and face dragons so that they can deliver true love first kiss to the cursed princess, and they would all live happily ever after.

Coming from a strict household I never really dated, I had never even kissed a boy.

So you can imagine the day I started my first year of varsity, I was determined to finally find my prince or princess charming and boy did I crash and burn several times.

I went from dating the emotionally unstable to dating a walking identity crisis and almost spending 3 years of my life in a 'friends with benefits' position waiting for my promotion like “One day they wake up and know that I’m the one.”

I was so in love with the idea of love that I did not look to the real examples of love that was very present in my life.

Like The love my parents shared, how my mother would pack my father’s lunchbox for work because he loved her cooking or The love my sisters had for me and each other, I could always count on them no matter what.

I realized then that love was a verb, it is something you do and not something you just say.

Love can be seen in how you treat each other.

With this new revelation I changed my ways and stopped looking for that love outside of myself, I cast it inwards, I planted that seed of love within myself and it bloomed and The blooming season of my essence attracted the worthy and the unworthy

My love finally found me.

My love is not a prince or princess and they don't have a sword. Yet they would face a dragon for me without a second thought and for the first time if need be I’ll find a way to wake up from my cursed state and help them.

We both know we have demons clinging to the shells of our skin but we are willing to sit down and pry each one off.

No matter how long, no matter how hard and no matter how painful.

Love is supposed to be hard, it only works if both parties are willing to roll their sleeves up and do the work, proclaiming: we're in it for the long haul!

This valentines day I hope you share your blooming flower essence of love with your Creator first and foremost, then yourself and finally the one that you would face a dragon for.

 Appreciate those around you and spread the love, my fellow dragon slayers ♥

Pixie