I know I have not written in this blog for quite some time. Life is busy and I am forgetful, and these two attributes do not go well together. However, due to some past and recent concerns from my single friends, I wished to write something to help my friends and others who may come across the blog.
Dear Friends,
Life is difficult and I know sometimes you feel frustrated that not everything works out. You face heartache and anger, rejection and lack of self-confidence. I want you to know that everything will work out in the end. Ladies, it is hard being single as a 20+ year old woman and I understand that constantly you question, 'Why Me?' You want guys to notice you and to put forth the effort to talk to you. The truth of it is: they do notice you. So why do we feel insignificant and lack self-worth? Girls, you don't need a guy to define your self-worth. You are beautiful and amazing. Whoever you are, you are the most important you out there. I like what I found from another site, written by a father who wanted his daughter and other girls to know just how important they are. The letter says,
"Recently, your mother and I were searching the Internet, and Google
returned a list of the most popular searches in the world. Perched at
the top was “How to keep him interested.”
It startled me. I scanned several of the countless articles about how
to be sexy, when to bring him a beer versus a sandwich, and the ways to
make him feel smart and superior. And I got angry.
Little One, it is not, has never been, and never will be your job to “keep him interested.”
Little One, your only task is to know deeply in your soul—in that
unshakable place that isn’t rattled by rejection and loss and ego—that
you are worthy of interest. (If you can remember that everyone else is
worthy of interest also, the battle of your life will be mostly won. But
that is a letter for another day.)
If you can trust your worth in this way, you will be attractive in
the most important sense of the word: You will attract a boy who is both
capable of interest and who wants to spend his one life investing all
his interest in you.
Little One, I want to tell you about the boy who doesn’t need to be kept interested, because he knows you are interesting:
I don’t care if he puts his elbows on the dinner table—as long as he
puts his eyes on the way your nose scrunches when you smile. And then
can’t stop looking.
I don’t care if he can’t play a bit of golf with me—as long as he can
play with the children you give him and revel in all the glorious and
frustrating ways they are just like you.
I couldn’t care less how he votes—as long as he wakes up every
morning and daily elects you to a place of honor in your home and a
place of reverence in his heart.
In the end, Little One, if you stumble across a man like that, and he
and I have nothing else in common, we will have the most important
thing in common: you."