The softest hearts are the strongest …

There’s so much fakeness in this world—people not saying what they mean and meaning what they say, smoke and mirrors at every turn, less and less authenticity, the list goes on. There have been times when folks have questioned my warm disposition, thinking it must be fake.

But oh no baby, it’s real. I sometimes feel like me and my peoples are some of the only real bitches left out here lol. Here’s the thing though: I choose to be this way. And I’m farrrr from perfect. I’m human and have my days and moments just like anyone else. And I extend grace to myself when I may not show up in this world as my best versions of self. But my baseline, my spirit—this is the real me.

So when I stumbled on the below quote, it spoke to me so deeply. My choice to move through this world with kindness and love, forever emotional, is a manifestation of my testimony, which I am grateful for and grounded in every day—the good the bad and the ugly, the highs and the lows, the twists and the turns, the ups and the downs.

I pray we all can lean even deeper into our tender, into our soft, and into our goodness, even if the world around us doesn’t always make space for it. The softest hearts are the strongest.

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The kindest people are not born that way, they are made. They 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 circumstance has tried 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.

— bianca sparacino