I really like the (admittedly fairly corny) show, "This Is Us." Most of that love is thanks to the story of the father and mother of the family, Jack and Rebecca.
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They have that glowing, best friend, belly laughter, adventure buddy, joyful, hard-working, home-sweet-home, authentic, and organic kind of love that I have always dreamed of building with right one.
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I recently was watching an episode of their beautiful little story, and there was one scene with the two of them, just laughing together. It wasn't a remarkable moment by any means, but it made me pause.
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Because in that moment, I felt this really sweet hope, and bright, renewed faith, that after everything that has happened this past year, my own story will still unfold one day.
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Because I deserve a love like that. And so do you.
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I deserve a love like the one I have written scrawly cursive lines about on every scrap of paper I could get my hands on, since I was nine years old.
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I deserve not to settle for someone who doesn't see me.
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I deserve one for the ages, and one for dancing barefoot across the kitchen floor to James Taylor records.
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Jack gives Rebecca a gold crescent moon necklace in one of the early episodes, because on the night that they met, she was singing the Cat Stevens song, "Moonshadow" - which is also one of my favorite songs.
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So I had this sweet little reminder made - of all the joy that is and will be.
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I believe in that kind of love again - for the first time in a really, really, really long time - and it makes my heart so happy.
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Maybe, broken hearts aren't actually broken. Maybe a part of them just gets hidden away in the shadows for a while - waiting until we are ready to embrace the light again.
