We all have our stories, we all have what makes us happy, what makes us cry, and what keeps us going. Some people are good at understanding and reading others, knowing what to say or what to do to elicit the emotional response they want from another.

Some do this maliciously, while others are doing it to purely help and connect with another. It can be hard to tell the difference between which is good and which is not. But this is a story for another time. I want to focus on the responses from these things that can be said or done & how they respond to others. Where you can see the world from another person, connect to another person, or just find a view into their world.

I have always been a person for eyes myself. The story that can be shared from one person looking into the eyes of another. You can connect their words to their emotions or even find the truth behind their words. The unspoken words that attach to various emotions can be pick up on by looking into ones eyes.

You can see someones joy, pain, excitement, distant, sadness and so much about them and how they are really doing in a situation. Sometimes you can see someones longing, worry or them wondering off to a place of their imagination or memory.

Its truly amazing to me to know that someone can give you the bravest of smiles & words to match, but be suffering in so much pain or discontent with things, but the fear to let someone into their world, to connect with them on that level and/or the distrust of how another would take what is really going on in their world.

We need to learn to build trust & connection – we shouldn’t need to rely on being able to interpret what story we can read when looking into someones eyes. We should feel safe to share our joys, pains and dreams. We need to find friends we can connect with & not have to hide ourselves behind our smiles & our words, where we can make our eyes connect to the story that they are telling & feel safe to tell the story, the dream, the emotions, and all of the above.

I am sure you are like but you can’t trust everyone, if you have been reading my blog far enough back, you know that I am fully aware that it can be hard to find someone to trust & sometimes, even when you think you have someone you can trust, they turn out to not be the person you had hoped or thought they were. It happens, but we need to not let that stop us from still trying to find those that will support us and connect with us.

Don’t let only your eyes tell your stories that you are too afraid to speak – speaking them will help you find your tribe and those that will support you to find your dreams or even just sit with you until you are ready to get up and try again. They will be there no matter how great the joy or deep the pain.