There are so many different forms of loneliness.

Never let your loneliness convince you to text someone toxic. Never lower your standards on nights you are alone. 

I’m not alone; I never was. I’ll never be, and all because God knows the shape of my heart; God sees. God hears my prayers; He’s here with me.

If being single is fun and exciting, being alone is content and calm. If being single is full of romance, being alone is full of self-discovery.

Most of us are scared to talk about our feelings, to be vulnerable because we don’t know what would happen.

At the end of the day, we only have ourselves.

Even though I’m an independent woman who doesn’t need a relationship to feel fulfilled, the truth is that I don’t want to fall asleep alone. I want someone beside me, holding me tight, comforting me when I jolt awake from nightmares. 

Don’t you dare think you can close our door, but keep it opened just a crack, in case you want to return when your legs aren’t as unsteady.

So when I bare my body instead of my soul
Know I am opening myself up to you the only way
I have ever known.

Let 2018 be the year where you grow truly comfortable with yourself. Let 2018 be the year you can enter a room full of strangers and still feel whole. Let 2018 be the year where you no longer search for love, because you’ve grown to find it inside of yourself.