Badassery Magazine Issue 9 January 2017 | Page 33

Love … What do you think of when you hear this word ? Is it played out or is it even part of your world ? Love comes in so many forms - love for yourself , love for your partner , love for your children , love for the neighbor or hot guy upstairs , love for your business or love for your fucking life ? Do you have it or have you just given up on it ?

Life has gotten so exhausting with all of the shit that you ’ ve got on your mind that you have just gotten to the point of doing what ’ s got to be done that love is the last damn thing on your mind . But is that the way life is meant to be ? Fuck no ! You were created out of love - ok maybe not that your parents even loved each other , but because they had a love for something - could have been the love of sex , drugs and rock ‘ n ’ roll or the love of affection or the love of creating a baby . Whatever it was - it was out of love .
So why does it seem like so many of us don ’ t have love for anything anymore ? Let ’ s get real . The todo-lists are fucking overwhelming the shit out of us and are not allowing us to find time for love of anything . But let ’ s face it . We need to get over the bullshit and start dropping some of that shit off of our list before we completely lose our minds and have completely lost the love for life .
Let ’ s start getting back to the fucking name of love people . Love for your body , love for your mind , love for your motherfucking soul . There is so much reason to love in this life - your other half , your parents , your babies , your friends , your clients , your future , your purpose in this sparkling Universe . How can you start producing more love in this world ? Can you find a way to start showing more love for yourself ? How about stopping for one moment to think about what you mean to someone in this world ? And realize that if you don ’ t start loving yourself more that you may not be here long enough to live out every single thing you
were meant for in this lifetime .
Take a few things off of that daily list that really don ’ t mean shit . I mean - come on now ! Does that trip to the store for a meaningless brand name bag mean so much more than a half hour of sitting by yourself in a quiet space to just relax and get rid of the stress that you ’ ve caused yourself over the last few years , trying to be someone that
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