Be Your Own Best Friend

Everything is much easier with your best friend beside you, right? Group projects, presentations, talking to your crush, or even just walking into a room full of strangers is always easier when you have your best friend next to you. Why is that?

It’s because we know that at the end of the day no matter what we do or what happens, we have that best friend backing us up. We won’t leave the situation alone or isolated from everyone. We get a sense of comfort in knowing that our best friend will be there even in our most embarrassing, awkward, and sad moments. They have already seen the worst in us and chosen to stay so even if everyone else leaves and you mess up the situation, you have your best friend by you.

But now think about if we could be this confident and secure in situations without our best friend there. Talking to new people or presenting is a scary topic knowing that maybe you will leave alone. Or maybe, this is where we our wrong. Our premise of being alone or nobody having our back when our best friend isn’t present is fundamentally wrong.

Why aren’t you your own best friend. Why aren’t you having your back more than anyone else. The moment in life when we have our own backs and can walk through life being our own best friends, everything else becomes less scary. You don’t always need an external best friend. They are great, but you have an internal best friend built at birth.

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