This Is a Shoutout to My Ex
I have learned to have immense gratitude for a relationship that did not last. If it had, I wouldn’t have been so invested in learning how to love myself. God knows why we wait to learn how to love ourselves when it feels like our survival depends on it, when it feels like if we don’t choose radical self love, our world might just cave in. But I’ve noticed, in myself and in others, we often wait until we are so sick and tired of feeling incomplete before we finally fill our own damn cup.
18 Things I’ve Learned From the First 18 Years of My life
BROUGHT TO YOU BY ARCHIVED JOURNAL ENTRIES, THE PEOPLE AND PLACES WHO HAVE SHAPED ME, AND MY DETERMINATION TO LIVE OUT AND TELL MY OWN “COMING OF AGE” STORY.
You’re Your Own Damn Everything.
You are your own damn everything. No one is more you than you. No one can understand you the way you do. I guarantee that the love you are seeking to give or receive from other’s is precisely the love you wish you would give yourself. Forget who you will disappoint. Take the risk. Get your cute a$$ in the driver’s seat. Ask yourself what you’re afraid of. Discern for yourself what sets your soul on fire.
Maybe She’s Born With It, Maybe It’s DISCIPLINE.
a healthy dose of discipline, routine, planning, and structure can all clear the way for spontaneity, liveliness, adventure, and dreams-come-true.