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In a world where almost everybody is so careful about giving love, showing affection, and being all in, I genuinely feel that you can't fully experience the best of life if you don't give yourself to the risky business of being all in.

You can't be too careful. If you're skeptical about people and scared of loving deeply and truly, how then will you discern the genuine from the fake?

Someone once said so brilliantly, "You haven't found real love because you haven't given it."

Have you genuinely gone all out? Or do you flee before it gets real enough to hurt you? Do you take the experiences of others as your truth and, in doing so, deny yourself depth?

I read somewhere that when we stop walking in love, we begin walking out of depth. Everything becomes surface level, all topsoil and shallow layers that never truly stick. You're unable to be authentically yourself because you're scared. That's not even cowardice; it's simply being cruel to yourself.

And while running to safety and hiding behind masks so no one can hurt you may seem wise right now, eventually it becomes a matter of how long you can keep running.

And if you do keep running and hiding, how then will you ever know who's genuine and who's not?

Dearest reader, while it may be scary to do life without your mask, it is even scarier to go through life without experiencing some of its finest gifts simply because you were too afraid to try.

Yes, evil exists, but not everything and everyone is evil. You have to open yourself up because, as they say, you'll never know until you try.

So live.

Without fear, without your easy, comfortable mask.

@favvy_Okwans🖤.