Pursuit
What is pursuit? This is a question I have mulled over time and time again throughout my years of experiencing the successes and failures of relationships. This is what I've found: Pursuit is the vulnerable risk to know and be known, for the sake of possibility, not surety. Pursuit is the hope before hope, the chance taken, the flick of a match. It is not, however, the definite start of an already decided journey. Pursuit takes courage and courage is the result of vulnerability not pride (its counterfeit). It is a meekness and openness that says "I'm just a boy and you're just a girl (or vise versa), each of us equally glorious and worthy of being known". This vulnerability creates humble, honest and powerful pursuit. Pride, however, is begotten by fear and it’s result is distance; a chasm made between equals that screams, “I’m better then you, I know more then you, I’m greater then you in this way or that,