EMILIE PAYET

Only Lovers Left Alive

Added 2025-08-23 20:03:26 +0000 UTC

Dearest readers,

I have been thinking a lot about the essence of what I wanted to share with you for this post.

Maybe too much, because it made me completely forget that the new moon was today.

Yet, the Universe had my back.

The Universe hum?

Manifesting through dreams, signs, wildlife, feelings, people; reminding us or showing us the way.

Which way? How can we be sure that this is the right path to take?

The right path is the one that is guided by manifestations that embody the power of joy, the power of unity, the power of love.

The title may lead you to think that I am talking about a love relationship but this is not what I am willing to talk about.

The title may lead you to think I'm talking about a romantic relationship, but that's not what I am willing to talk about.

I wish to talk about how pure and simple love can be. True love.

“Beauty will save the world” F.D

I had this long night of talking with my best friend and we ended up with this sentence:

“When we surrender to our darkness, we resonate with beauty.”

Nothing is entirely black or entirely white and this is the same for all polarities.

It all depends on how you feed them both to find the perfect balance that harmonizes with your environment.

It is our duty to find this balance. The rest is bonus.

There are certain things that we feel we have to do, we really think we have to, but we don’t have to.

We are simply responding to a system that does not always care about our well-being, and therefore about balance, and which is there manipulating us, to use us.

I have heard many times that Virgo has two sides, the crazy and the wise one.

For a perfect balance, both are necessary.

If you only go crazy, you will lose yourself into instability or insanity.

If you settle too much in what you call 'wisdom', thinking that wisdom itself is still and quiet, you are mistaken and you will lose yourself through the loss of your joy, your creativity, your light into frustration and probably, if you are a genuinely benevolent person, into a very boring life.

Maybe this is the life you want for yourself but I learned that boredom doesn't always attract the best decisions.

You can always delegate to people that will not give up, the dreamers, the fighters,

that I prefer not to gather with the optimists because optimists can be in denial,

while dreamers and fighters are aware and acknowledge reality, and yet they deeply want and believe that they can change it.

What if they are right?

We can only make a change if we open our eyes wide and acknowledge all aspects.

I often hear people blaming mom and dad, people at school for the way they behave when they do wrong.

If I may offer a piece of advice: we do not all see the same things, and one of the presents we can gift ourselves with, is to awaken our vision.

I've always been very much attracted to people who have issues. Nothing specific. Always different.

I suffered, not only because they hurt me, but because I was watching them suffer.

But you know what we say, we can't save people, only them can save themselves.

Despite their darkness, their flaws as some would say, I saw the beauty and I always looked at them with the eyes of love.

I truly believed that this would be the one and only cure. To love.

“Beyond good and evil, beyond right and wrong, beyond judgment, there is understanding and I will meet you there.”

They were bad, for me, for them, because they were compensating.

Compensating for something that happened in the past, something someone said or did to them.

It can be family, friends, it can be anyone.

These things happened because of lack of love and understanding.

Because of the criticisms and reproaches they received, repeatedly, about their precious singularities.

They felt ashamed. “They don’t love me, so how can I love myself?”

People don't like this or that; they find you weird, and so you become a flaw in their eyes.

You feel like you have to act like they say to fit in.

But do they have the right vision to say this? What guides their vision?

We don’t need to know which of the chicken or the egg came first.

When people put pressure on others by humiliating them, we start to hate what we do, what we like to do, what we love, what we are.

This is where evil begins, when we stop loving.

Our “demons” just need to be loved “first”, not rejected.

And so we created all the monsters in our world, we are responsible for them.

Those who hurt, those who remained silent.

Frustrations turn into all kinds of disease.

Frustration of not being enough of what we think we want for ourselves.

Aren’t we? Really? Or is it something, again, that has been told to us.

To shut us up. To remain silently in control.

Fit in to be used.

The one who puts you down always does it because he is afraid, weak, and doesn't want anyone to see it.

So he finds someone else, makes him believe in all sorts of weaknesses and flaws and the pattern continues on and on.

Cruelty is easy.

I suffered violence as a child, teenager and young woman; physically and psychologically.

Because apparently I wasn't enough of this or too much of that.

I let this happen because I wasn't strong enough to believe that I was just fine.

“Let us not be defined by what others perceive of us.”

I think the reverse could also be true. Someone who has never encountered darkness might be too fragile for this world, unable to face it, or perhaps, will wish to seek darkness and, inevitably, tend to be destroyed by it.

Our darkness also builds us.

"If there is a demon, it has always been there." Mary Magdalene

I would like to take the example of an icon that I will not name here.

She was a woman of wit, but few gave her that right because of her perfect figure.

As well as no one wanted to see 'her darkness' and that's why she felt outrageously alone and succumbed to it.

Our world has destroyed her by only wanting to see what was happening under the spotlight in order to make us feel more comfortable.

Darkness is not limited to the things we don't see, but also to the things we don't want to see.

What we are willing to avoid, because we have been told to, we destroy.

When we destroy God's work, we are committing a crime.

Instead of avoiding, start loving.

“We find God whenever we encounter LOVE.”

It's all about love.