You Are My Angel...

This article was prompted by a comment from website visitor "nini" - "There are guardian angels we cannot see. And there are guardian angels we see, hear, feel - they are our friends."

 I have long thought about this "angel question". I know that I have had angels in my life and that there are angels beside me right now - people who have influenced and continue to influence my life. Moreover, they are both "fallen" angels and bright, selfless ones, who give me strength and support me in moments of doubt and indecision. And what is more, I now know that by looking into a person's eyes, I can determine that they will be an integral part of my life for some time. That is a certain part of life experience or women's intuition, as one prefers to think of it.

Several years ago, when I discovered these connections, I wrote:

You are my angel,
I am yours.
Your love like wings above me,
A shelter for my dreams
Of happiness.

An angel is a friend, a husband, a wife, a colleague, a teacher (not just as a profession), any person with whom one resonates, between whom and you there is no indifference.

As I mentioned - there are both fallen and bright angels (here I would not wish to link the concept of an angel with the classical notions of the church, religion, or the Bible). Both are part of life and both must be accepted in order to learn, develop, suffer, and forgive.

The highest sense of happiness lies in the awareness that you are someone's angel and that the other person looks at you in exactly that way. That is how a child looks at their parents, how a person consumed by love looks at their beloved, how a pupil looks at their teacher... In essence it is 100% trust in another. I have always been sceptical about 100% claims, since nothing and nobody in life is unchanging - if anything is static, it is not alive. Yet I can recall several of these "angel gazes" in my life. The most terrible thing one can do is selfishly exploit such a gaze - to begin manipulating a person who trusts you. And many of us do exactly that, because we are after all "winners", "victors", "favourites", "leaders".