The Freedom Found in knowing I am not the only one

​Doors unlock the first time you are in the presence of "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."

Doors to discovering the things you are painfully hiding from the world are the things the world is painfully hiding from you.

Doors to being accepted for who you are and not for who you've spent an entire life becoming to hide who you are.

Doors to discovering and harnessing the beauty and power in vulnerability.

Doors to discovering that conversations connect people when conversations explore, when they carry on with a spirit of curiosity. Conversations unafraid of where they might lead, knowing someone may need them to go where they've never gone before.

Doors to discovering that beneath many of our outward disparities are inward similarities - many of them rooted in shared struggles and longings and insecurities.

Doors to discovering I need you more than I need to protect myself from you.

Doors to togetherness.

Doors to us.

Doors to one of the most beautiful freedoms of all, the sweet escape that comes with knowing, I'm not the only one.