Stop chasing love (and start chasing your joy)
When you spend all your time chasing love, you often lose sight of loving yourself.
by: E.B. Johnson
We are a society that’s completely obsessed with love. No matter where you look, you’re confronted with images of happy couples and the pressure to pair off. It can be overwhelming and for many of us it results in a compulsive chase that leaves us alienated from our true selves and the things that matter in this.
Finding deep and meaningful happiness requires us to dig deep and first find that happiness within ourselves. While romantic relationships can certainly offer us love and support, those things cannot exist unless we find them first within ourselves. We have to stop chasing love within the external world and start tapping into it within ourselves. Take courage and stand on your own. After all, no one can see you and love you quite like you can love yourself.
Love isn’t a check mark on your to-do list.
The world places a huge emphasis on pairing off and finding romantic love. From a young age, they bombard us with images of knights and princesses, happy couples with picket fences and 2.5 kids. Everywhere you look, you’ll find the pressure to secure a very superficial ideal…
