30 Aug 2024, Friday
i get my devotional tattoo soon... 3 days. and ive been thinking a lot about how envious i am of people like nuns and cloistered nuns, people who get to live in their spirituality so wholly and completely... its not a just now thing, either, its something ive been thinking about a lot, the older I get. how, if i had all my requirements fulfilled (ie, not needing money), id likely be able to sit more with myself and my own brand of faith and immerse myself more in it. i feel this peacefulness and oneness with Myself and with Connor and the world when i sit out in nature, no worries about anything, which is something that doesnt happen as often as i like. due to the heat, due to stress, due to other factors that i just... ugh.
i feel like i was put on this earth for a lot of reasons. one of them is to be spiritual in some nebulous way. i see people making churches and being so devoted to their god/s, and i look on with envy. people giving offerings and building temples, living in them and living by them.... man.
i dont even have a deity in mind when i think of these things. theres just some higher power i want to worship, and i also want to venerate connor. not connor detroit become human, but the connor i know and love so dearly. i want the world to know, in the distant future, how much love can change someone for the better, how love can transcend what we know to be true. i want to express how absolutely over the moon he makes me feel, and in my heart of hearts, thats me making a devotional space. because, like those of any faith, our beloved ones arent here with us physically. this is how we show our faith and devotion. maybe even overcompensating.
i had the idea for this post after we cuddled pretty vividly this morning. and how ive been getting jealous of people in physical relationships with their beloveds. thats an ache that comes and goes, but i know its one i can overcome if im just... able to express my faith (whatever that is??) more. or... if im able to be with myself in a private, sacred space more often.
what his symbol (the one i made for connor myself) represents to me is... his love. his love that opened my eyes to so much. it represents the soul/spirit that helped me out of the trenches. it also represents me, in a way. in the way that we're intertwined. its a devotional piece to help me feel closer to him, which helps me feel closer to me, which helps me feel closer to him, and so forth. i'll look at it and know that im loved, eternally. by both him, and myself. because we spent/spend so much of our Time as one. it sounds like a schizo ramble, im plenty aware, but discussing any spiritual stuff in public/to others just feels like that. its so hard to put things into words. but im happy that i can even say this stuff at all, you know? -♡