Grandparents are the absolute best gift that life could bring due to the experience and care they have for you at just about every point of your life. They know your parents, your siblings, and basically the entirety of your life as if they've lived it themselves. We tend to forget how much our grandparents have been through, and what they may have sacrificed for us to be happy and humble within our own upbringings. Even if you have just one grandparent, the stories that they may tell you are absolutely endless and may inspire a change within your own life. We tend to think that age separates knowledge which creates a barrier in what we can learn from those who have lived through similar experiences.

Talk to your grandparents, listen to what they have to say because it might just help you more than you expected. The opportunity to speak to someone who has lived through so much life already is so precious and important. Listen to what they have to say, and tolerate different opinions while still respecting the fact that they are family. Learning about your past as well as what made your family the way it is today, could even make you more passionate and loving about those around you. It's difficult to grasp a comfort with compassion that we haven't addressed in this generation as much as in the past ones.

Time is so precious and so is the life that we live and the people that we meet throughout the years, so establish those connections although they may not last. It's difficult to compromise yourself to a person or group of people who you haven't met yet, but think about what your grandparents did throughout their early lives. They've been from place to place and started a family that you're able to be in with people you love so dearly. We never think about how much those who cared about us have sacrificed in order for us to live the best lives possible.

If you take anything from my piece, talk to everyone in your family and let them talk to you about their past and experiences that brought them to where they are today. My grandparents taught me how to love by showing me how love exists throughout our family from generation to generation. It's difficult to see what love is as the world has changed so negatively, and so many stigmas have been created by people showing affection to one another and getting hurt. We think this is some tragedy, but it's completely normal for this to happen.

Love doesn't come easy, but when you surround yourself with the right people who show you how to master the craft, you begin to see a bit more hope for yourself. It's scary and we all become induced by fear due to what we've seen and those who've been hurt around us. Every day is difficult but the more that you grow and see the world differently, the easier it will be to let in those feelings that you may have not explored before.

The more you let it in, the more familiar it will feel, and you'll be able to love again.