Falling for Yourself

Since I was young, I've always been told you have to love yourself before you can love someone else, which I disagree with, I think with the right person, you can learn to love both yourself & them. However, loving yourself is a game changer, not just for a relationship, but for yourself & for the sake of your mental stability.

Over the course of the past few months I was falling in love with myself, and I didn't realize it until recently. There's been little things that I've caught myself doing, I fell in love with life which in turn, has made me love myself.

It's the way I wheeze & snort when I laugh, or the way I obsess over One Tree Hill. It's the bright yellow sandals I bought because I liked them, it's the way I scarf down 2 loaves of bread at Longhorn. It's the way I can finish a whole book in a day, or the fact I can't function without a Jack's iced coffee in my system.

It's all these little things I've noticed about myself that have made me look in the mirror differently. It's the things I love about me that'll make someone's world spin one day, or the quirks my future kids might pick up from me along the way.

It's the way I run off drunk, the way I sing in the car, it's the way I grab people's shirt collar when I hug them, or the wet willies I attempt. It's the way I stop every time I see a puppy when I'm driving, & the way I can only eat a popsicle with a paper towel around them because it's too cold for my hands.

I think I finally understand what falling in love completely is like, it's loving the hell out of every little thing someone does.

And it's okay if that person is yourself.