A Gentle Reminder by Bianca Sparacino Audiobook Reading Practice
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The kind of people are not born that way, they are made. There are the souls that have experienced so much at the hands of life. They are the ones who have dug themselves out of the dark, who have fought to turn every loss into a lesson. The kindest people do not just exist. They choose to soften where circumstances try to harden them. They choose to believe in goodness because they have seen firsthand why compassion is so necessary. They have seen firsthand why tenderness is so important in this world? You deserve to be loved the way you love others, you deserve to feel seen, you deserve to sleep beside someone who does not try to quiet your heartbeat or your passion or the way you show up in this world. You deserve to be with the kind of person who loves all of your twists and does not try to untie them. You deserve to love someone who does not judge you for the ways in which you had to kill your sadness. Someone who does not hold your past against you, you deserve to be chosen and to never be loved in health. You deserve someone who is sure of you, you deserve someone who stays. However, you also deserve to be this person for yourself, for your capacity to be alone, your capacity to be your own home. Your own foundation is going to be directly reflected the way you love these human beings. When they come into your life, when you know yourself, when you stand up for your heart, you do not bankrupt who you are just, if you have loves in your life, love becomes less about, fill the void, love becomes less about possession, less about dependence. And it transforms into something that can be fully and deeply appreciated and felt because you are not afraid that its loss will destroy you. You are not afraid of being without it because you know that you will always have yourself. The bravest thing you will ever do is learn how to love the things that made you. If you are trying to forget someone who was once a beautiful part of your life, the answer is you don't, you don't try to sanitize your experience. You don't try to cut the pain from the bone. You don't downplay it. You don't try to sweep it under the rug or hide it away, letting go of someone you thought would be in your life forever is difficult. Sometimes circumstance gets in the way. Sometimes no matter how much love is there, you have to lay it down, you have to walk away you have to accept that. Sometimes you get too big for it or you want different things or you cannot pour yourself out for it any longer. And that is ok. But if you managed to find someone who cared for you who saw you who heard all of the horrible and haunted things you did in your life and still loved you harder. Still thought it all shone like gold that is special. You shouldn't forget that you should be thankful for it. Be thankful that you got to feel the way that way about someone. Be thankful for all the mornings and all of the nights, you got to wrap your limbs within theirs. Be thankful for the way they cracked your heart open. Be thankful for the way they challenged you and calmed you and made you believe in the person you were becoming, be thankful for the fact that they saw you in ways you didn't see yourself. Be thankful for the fact that you risk for love that you enhanced your rib cage and opened yourself up in a world that sometimes favors playing it cool over leaping towards connection. Be thankful that you found this person in a world of billions and for a moment in time, even if it was fleeting, you got to dive into the soul of them. Just be thankful and walk away with grace. Walk away with gratitude, walk away knowing that you felt something that you experience something a lot of people haven't. And in that way you were changed, love is not meant to be possessed. It is meant to be felt, be proud of yourself, for feeling so deeply, appreciate it for what it was. And let that love go into the world and change others the way it changed you move on. Not for anyone else, not to prove to anyone that you can, but rather do it for yourself. Do it for your future. Let go of what is heavy within you move forward with the lessons, carry them inside of yourself. Move on. Not because you have something to prove to the outside world, but because you have something to prove to your heart, you have something to prove to your soul. You are worth saving, save yourself. I think it's beautiful the way you show up in this world and guarded and willing to try again despite all of the ways it has tried to defeat you. I think it's beautiful the way you tuck courage into yourself each morning. The way you refuse to be anything but hopeful in this world. Despite the inner battles you fight, despite the struggles you have experienced for so long. I think it's beautiful the way you twist your laws into lessons, the way you fight. Even when you feel weak, you are not weak. There is a resounding level of courage to be found in being the person who continues to heal. Even when it hurts. There is a resounding back level of bravery to be found in being the person who believes in the light, even one, they cannot see it. You will not find a love that is perfect, but you will find a love that is real. You will not find a love that is perfect, but you will find a love that sees you the kind that brings down your walls that asks you to share the part, the parts of your soul you have tucked away and kept hidden from the world. You will not find a love that is perfect, but you will find a love that shows you that it is ok to be the kind of person who balances both hope and heart within them, that it is ok to be the kind of person who has not always known how to quiet and breathing of their heart within their chests. And this love, it will hold you there. It will not vilify you for the ways you have to heal your sadness, the way you show up in this world. This love, it will not flinch at the side of your darkened past. It will hold you there. Not just when you're gleaming example of beauty or perfection, but when you are baring your teeth, when you are unraveled before it, when you, it will not run from you, when you take off your mask, you will find a love that is perfect, but you will find a love that connects this long. It will not shy away from the depth of you. It will dive, it will sit you down and ask you about your childhood home. It will ask you what it felt to lose your mother. What it felt like to always be the person who never quiet that this love, it will know you and on some levels, it will feel like it always has that you have been carrying around a longing for it. That on some level, your soul was always waiting to reconnect with his heart. I was always waiting to come back home to the parts of itself you eventually found in another human being. You'll not find love that is perfect, but you will find a love that reminds you that goodness exists, this love, it will inject honey into the soul of you and it will feel like warmth has cracked within your bones and you will see how it learns you and fights for you and stays to weather the storms by your side. You will be reminded that there is connection in a world that often chooses distance over death. You will be reminded that there is hope to be found pouring from the fingertips of another human being tucked between the layers of the things you have yet to discover about them. No, you will not find a love that is perfect, but you'll find a love that is light that isn't heavy to carry that does not weigh down the core of you. You will finally understand that love was always meant to be soft, that it was always meant to be tender. No, you will not find a love that is perfect, but you will find a love that reminds you just how worthy you were always Islam. It will show you that you were never asking for too much. But the way you send your heart to war for other human beings was not foolish that the way you were incapable of loving in house was not wrong. This love, it will show you that it was always ok to be the kind of person who loved in a way that was full and nourished and hopeful all over that. It was always ok to be the kind of person who could never shy away from their heart. This love, it will make up for all the times you are asked to slaughter your instincts for all of the time. She tried to break herself down just to comfort or impress someone who was not meant for you. This love, it will show you that you are always worthy of it, that you always deserved to be seen and understood that you always deserved to be held and cared for the way you held and cared for all that came before it. This love will teach you that you were never too much. You were always enough. You were always enough.