I am My Best Friend!

Vrooom....I take off on my kinetic Honda every time I feel low. I go window shopping, eat at a near by confectionery, walk around and maybe buy something small, like a lipstick. Soon I start feeling better. Has this ever happened to you? I'm sure it has.

Have you had people tell you not to do something and you have this voice inside you that tells you to calm down, just listen to them and then walk away without saying anything? Yes there is this queer inner voice, that tells you its going to be OK, because you are what you are.

Have you ever felt lonely? Desperate need to talk to someone, feel the love you need? Have you spent night crying yourself to sleep, just because to think no one loves you? Its a common problem that effects one and all, sometime or the other in life.

We think so much about other people. What they say, what they think, what they feel, seems to effect us more than anything else in this world. A need to feel accepted by society. But why? End of the day, who is it that you want to keep happy? Ask yourself this question and the answer comes back to you. My mother, my lover, my teacher, my boss. Tell me something, when will the answer be me?

We are so bothered about people around us that we often forget ourselves. We forget to be happy, to be satisfied. We keep trying to do things that would make other people happy. But what about ourselves? Don't we matter to ourselves?

It is that queer voice that fights for us, that makes us want to hear it, is nothing but the little person inside us. It is what we are, and what we want to be. But we suppress it. That little person knows what you are and what you are capable of. But still we choose to listen to the voices outside. Because we want to keep someone else happy, than ourselves.

We feel sad, frustrated, angry at the world. Because no one seems to understand us. If you don't want to know what you are, tell me, why would anyone else want to understand you? We wish we had a best friend who could listen to us and advice us. What about that little person inside you? Isn't that little person your Best Friend? The person inside you has know you, your entire life. It also knows your fears, your capabilities, and is always there when you need it. But we dismiss our Best Friend, because things outside seem more real than our inner-self.

Why? I ask you again, do we ignore ourselves at the expensive of being unhappy, depressed and demotivated?

We don't need anyone else to make us feel good about ourselves. Its like how Kareena Kapoor says in Jab We Met, "Mein meri favourite houn!". This statement holds true for us too. We too should love ourselves. Only then will people treat us properly and we will never feel the need to impress anyone, as people will automatically be impressed by us.

Once we start being our own Best Friend, we will start feeling more confident and stop feeling lonely, unhappy, and will not feel the need to have someone around us all the time. All of us have a journey we need to complete. Why not do it, enjoying every moment? So the next time you want to use the Rest Room, or go watch a movie, or Window Shop, remember, you don't need anyone. You have 'you', your Best Friend!