The Best Emotion

The following is an excerpt from the notes of Stephen Brasel's attempt to write out his reasons to live. He came across an emotion that he couldn't put a word to. In his attempt to describe it, he wrote down these thoughts.

The Best Emotion.

"I think the single best emotion you can feel is the warm feeling you get when you realize that someone is allowing themselves to be vulnerable... to you,
when they let you past the walls accepting that they may be hurt and allow you to see their fragility with open arms after being told all their lives resounding messages of the lesson of not letting anyone in for fear of getting hurt. It is an honor to see under the mask and feel the trembling uncertainty in yourself of how to let them know that you love even this part of them and will care for it and nurture it. It's an oft-undervalued privilege to be trusted with the knowledge of
who they really are
let alone be able and willing to cherish it.
They are emotionally investing in you. They are letting you into their heart with the intent of having a space there just for you. They are inviting you to be a literal part-of-their-life. They're opening up to you, and on the inside you see this absolutely beautiful, perfectly imperfect soul trembling as you are trembling. This emotion is the realization of finding that someone, the one, who is just as terrified, just as traumatized as you, or worse; and letting themselves be vulnerable to you is an honor beyond the capability of a single word to describe.
I think that's the closest you'll come to heaven on earth: the sudden,

Impossible

realization that someone you love, who loves you, is letting you in to love them.