There is ONE man in your life that you’re neglecting. And before I get tomatoes and used condoms thrown at me, it’s
NOT the “big man upstairs”
The man I’m referring to is… well, it’s you. The relationship you have with yourself is the most beautiful thing you can have and is one of the most worthwhile relationships you can be invested in and always come back to regardless of what happens.
Trust me, I rolled my eyes the first time around when I heard that “relationship with yourself” “be invested in you.” In fact I can count the number of times I had friends tell me that my eyes were gonna fall out of my skull for how hard I was rolling them at said statements.
I had always been the type to jump into things because I thought of relationships as huge ass fire sales that once they’re gone, they’re gone for good mentality. Over time I never really understood why I felt like something was missing in my previous relationships and then it wasn’t until recently that I realized that the reason these didn’t work out was because the relationship I had in myself was lacking and therefore I couldn’t be fully invested as everyone else was.
Now that I’ve invested in myself and my relationship with myself, it’s a beautiful thing. Now I’m not cursing off all men, god no, and everyone whose reading this; if I do happen to retract this statement, please assume I’ve been kidnapped/abducted by aliens/use a shotgun on me/ etc. and I’m sure that one day, when the time is right, my Mr. Right will come along (that is AFTER he figures out that the door he’s trying to open to get to me is a PUSH door not a PULL one, lol) and I’ll bet my bottom dollar that when I meet him, the relationship will be like a perfect harmony and the Symphony Dolphins (IYKYK
) will jump out of the Lisa Frank ocean and all is well. And when that day comes it’ll be AMAZING. And while I let that day manifest itself to fruition, I’m gonna enjoy the relationship with myself to the fullest extent.
As the great Shakespearean Poet Beyonce once said; “Me, Myself, and I that’s all I got in the end that’s what I found out and it ain’t no need to cry I took a vow that from now on I’m gon’ be my own best friend” and yes I know that song is a breakup anthem but that part resonates with me so deeply. At the end, we really do have ourselves at the end of it all and the relationship we have with ourselves is the most substantial and most beautiful thing you can invest in!