Inspired - if your lucky

What inspires you?
What moves, and compels you? Causes that pause, followed by the notable and physical shift in your heart? What makes your breath catch in your chest just short of your throat. The feeling like you just sunk into yourself.
Or maybe the question is .. . who?

Have you ever experienced a true emotional connection that is SO powerful in and of itself, with no prompting or coaxing that it's moved you to tears instantly? And at the same time it ignites a passion and desire in you for a deeper understanding of everything you thought you knew, about yourself, about love.

It's rare, I'll admit. Almost a myth, but I can attest to it's existence.
I've been fortunate enough to have another affect me in such a way. I wonder what it would be like to be that for someone else. To offer a part of yourself, and know that some one's response to you could actually physically change their breathing pattern. That is a profound idea to say the least.

The concept of really loving someone more than yourself, not just in words, but in reality. Overwhelming, yes. Unfathomable, almost. The gravity of that kind of love is looming and expansive, like crossing oceans of time. It touches every corner of your life, your being, whether you want it to or not. It doesn't ask for permissions from you, it just is. It won't be ignored or controlled. It's silent power brews forcefully under the surface, like a tidal wave beneath the sea, crashing against the shore to shape it to it's needs.

In the end you become whatever it is that you need to be, to allow it to exist. To be true to it, to you, is a balance that is almost impossible to find. But what you will find along the way is pain, loneliness, loss, anguish sometimes, and of course confusion. They are all sides of the same coin and one cannot exist without the other. Like day and night, you need one to appreciate the other, to realize it's brillance. To find and understand the many, and vastly different sides within yourself.

Oh to be inspired like that, to feel the life in it. It really is amazing. A gift.
To experience real love. To immerse yourself in someone else and awake a heart long afraid to feel. To find and lose your hearts desire. If that is tragic than give me tragedy because I wouldn't miss that for the world.