What does it feel like?

I think as humans we really want to know what something feels like. This is how we connect, this how we engage, this is how we empathize, and create negotiations where we slowly begin to define ourselves, our experiences and our world.

We're curious by nature. We want to know what it feels like to fall in love so when we are young we read stories and then try to fit that image into our hearts in hopes that it will somehow turn out the way we had pictured it. We want to know what it feels like to be fulfilled so we read books about it in hopes that we can have this feeling too. I know after being pregnant that before I got pregnant I wanted to know what it felt like. I asked women before me who have been pregnant before, and same with being a mom; however, for the first time ever, no one has been able to accurately describe what it feels like to be a mom or to have been pregnant.

There are also times in life where we don't want to know what it feels like so we don't ask. What does it feel like to lose something you love? What does it feel like to be disappointed? What does it feel like to not make it? To fail? We often don't necessarily want to know what these things feel like, even though we ALL experience these aspects of life. I think that's why for the most part when we are going through them, we often feel alone. Maybe those select few who "have been" there reach out, but for the most part, more often than not, we experience these parts of life quietly.

So, I think the best question we can ask our family, our friends, the people we care about, the people we don't know, even the things we are quick to judge is "what does it feel like?"

What does it feel like to be you, right now as you are?
Does it feel scary?
Empowering?
Steady?
Shaky?
Messy?
Controlled?
Loved?
Unloved?
Deep?
Shallow?
Thick?
Thin?

Does it feel tangible?
Does it feel new?
Different?
Familiar?

What does it feel like to be you?