#being heard

[dinosaurwithablog]

It's amazing... you can live in a house with someone and feel totally alone, but you can find another person who makes you feel so seen and heard and loved that you're no longer alone. Love knows no bounds, and I love love!!!❤️❤️ Thank you for this great gift!! You know who you are!! 🫂🫂🤗🤗😍😍 I love you so much!!!

[perlmuttbluete]

you never doubted me and in that quiet i was completely held in the cradle of your hands completely seen completely loved like i finally belonged

-Notes from the bathroom floor

[giftofgabber]

I have 2 discipline myself into asking for help. Into knocking on the door instead of throwing myself off the balcony… What I want IS, after all, to be heard and seen

[family-trauma]

Self love isn't selfishness.

[rain-rainynights-side]

if the loudest will refuse to hear or see you, i will keep you in my thoughts as my quiet but persistent acknowledgment. i know it isn't much and i am not able to do a lot when it feels as though you are being erased. but i hope my words are a reprieve that your place still and always will stand in the face of hatred

[chroniclesofchronicillness]

Cherish those that can hear you.

[ahedderick]

Grabbing the mike

Call me weird, but once I got out of school and into adulthood I started to enjoy public speaking. I've had a few great experiences, and it's a nice change of pace to feel 'heard' and get a short time in the spotlight.

My husband was invited to do a presentation for a two-week forestry course that's going on in our county. When he was asked if he knew anyone else who could present, he asked my son's roommate if he wanted to talk about falconry, and my son if he would bring his drone to get some group photos.

Tuesday, while they were waiting to begin, Son asked for a piece of paper and a pencil. He started scribbling a few notes. Then he gave a full presentation about drones and drone photography, instead of just taking pix. The whole shebang; taking questions, audience participation, all polished and engaging.

I am laughing so hard. I actually did the same thing once, taking over last-minute for someone who did not want to speak at an award ceremony. He really enjoyed it, and told the event coordinators that he would be available in the future to talk about various subjects. I fully understand why many people dread public speaking, but it can be so wonderful to be seen and heard. To teach, and reach out.

[babiriye]

The most terrible thing is to be stuck inside your mind.

Being able to communicate feelings, to be vulnerable and heard and loved is how we can find meaning and get out of our heads.

The world is full of unexplainable, scary shit. And it's also full of warm tea on cold nights, petting dogs, watching cat videos, people morning loss and more people comforting and loving those experiencing loss. It's full of compassion, creativity, curiosity and wonder that we can choose to explore and appreciate.

The universe doesn't care about us. But we care about eachother, and that is what makes humanity truely exceptional.