By Sarah Taylor
What would you be like — what would you be capable of — if you were to throw caution to the winds and love yourself fearlessly and fully?
What would your life be like? How would you want it to look — its details, its cycles of union, separation, grief, reunion, joy, separation, pain, merging, ecstasy — if you were to throw caution to the winds and love yourself fearlessly and fully?
How would you see others? How would you feel about them? How would you be if they approached you, open arms, their faces and hearts an expression of their silent desire that you do the same? How would you react if they were to shame, hunt or hurt you, either out of ignorance or malice? How fiercely could you love through it all, if you were to throw caution to the winds and love yourself fearlessly and fully?
How might your neighbourhood change, your community, your country, your world? What of polarisation, alienation, hatred, mistrust? How could all of these change if you were to throw every last bit of caution to the winds and love yourself fearlessly and fully?
Reading this, all of us, we can wonder to ourselves; we can turn over possibilities, theories, fantasies in our minds of what could happen if we were to do just that, and love ourselves fearlessly and fully. And wondering will not make the slightest bit of difference to how we experience life today, right now, on this planet. Wondering will change nothing.