Honoring My Desires

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves. ~Federico Garcia Lorca

 

I've done this a few times in my life - once with a person that I was completely besotted it, and twice when I wanted out of relationships that were completely and utterly stultifying to my soul.  After the mind numbing, soul killing relationship that lasted 13 years too long, I decided that never again will I keep quiet about deep desires.

If I burn with desire for something, I will say so.  I may not get what I want, but it won't be because I wasn't honest about my desires.  I would rather feel the pain of rejection and failure than the pain of killing my own soul.