When you are your own best friend, you are always in good company. You are never alone because you are always with yourself. You build yourself up and encourage yourself. You have fun with yourself and don't tell yourself what you can and can't do. You don't criticize, ridicule, or mock yourself. You are always kind and forgiving with yourself. You don't judge yourself. You don't call yourself names. You don't doubt yourself. You want to be the best version of yourself, and you are always appreciating yourself and your efforts. You are never not good enough for yourself. You don't try to control or manipulate yourself. You don't abuse or neglect yourself. You always listen to yourself. You are always there for yourself. You never ignore yourself. You are never lonely. You know that you can get through anything that life brings your way since you always have yourself to get through it with. You can comfort and soothe yourself. You Love yourself unconditionally.
When you are your own best friend, you aren't affected by the thoughts or actions of those around you. No one else can ever let you down. No one else can ever disappoint you. You no longer care what anyone thinks about you. You are free to be whoever you want to be. You are free to do whatever you want to do. You don't need to wait for someone else to be around to do the things you want to do; you can just do them. You don't need anyone's approval or validation. You will miss people when they leave from your life, but it will no longer destroy you. You don't need anyone to comfort you. You don't need to rely on others. You don't seek anything from anyone else. You don't need anything from anyone.
When you are your own best friend, you are free. Free to pursue your own hobbies. Free to have your own interests. Free to like what you like and not like what you don't like. Free to eat what you want to eat. Free to dress how you want to dress. Free to act how you want to act. Free to sing as loud and as often as you want. Free to dance as badly as you want. Free to be free. Free to be happy. Free to go out and explore. Free to stay in. Free to watch what you want to watch. Free to listen to what you want to listen to. Free to read what you want to read. Free to believe whatever you want. Free to believe in anything you want or in nothing at all. Free to question. Free to not know. Free to not have to fit in. Free to agree or disagree. Free to be you. Free to change who you are. Free to be no one at all. Free to Live.
When you are your own best friend, you have room in your life for as many or as little people as you want. You can have infinite friends or life a life of solitude. You can be a part of society, or you can be a hermit in the woods or any mixture of the two. You don't find other people annoying or intolerable, you simply don't need to be around them. More people like you and want to be your friend when they know that you aren't using them for anything or don't need them in order to be happy. People can see your genuineness. People can see your carefree and calm nature. Everyone becomes a friend to you when you no longer rely on anyone to fulfill any desires or needs. Everyone becomes a friend when you no longer try to use anyone or control anyone. Everyone wants to be free and when you allow others the freedom to be themselves since you aren't using them for anything, everyone tends to like you. The more you are your own best friend, the more people like you and the less you need them to like you which in turn causes them to like you even more.
We all want to be free from being told what to do. We all want to be free to think for ourselves. We all want to be free to make our own mistakes. We all want to be free to believe what we want. We all want to be free to feel what we feel. We all want to be free to be who we are with judgement or contempt. We all want to be Loved and accepted as we are. We all want to feel like we are good enough and not less than. We all want to be happy. We all want to live a fulfilling life. When we look outside of ourselves for these things, more often than not we do not find what we are looking for in others. Not that we can't find these things in others. We have all heard of a couple who were together their entire lives and were absolutely happy and content and had everything they wanted in life, and they found it in each other. It can and does happen, but in the current world that is more of an exception than a rule.
The majority of us are seeking our "other half", our "soulmate", or that one person who will finally complete us and make us whole. The question is why do we believe we need someone else to complete us or to make us whole? We have everything that we seek within ourselves, and we don't need anyone else to give it to us. No one else can ever "complete" us, we have to do that ourselves. In truth we are already complete, we simply can't see it because we believe that our completion somehow lies within someone who will bring us the rest of ourselves. No one else can complete us and if we don't Love ourselves completely and wholly, no one else will ever be enough. We are our own "soulmates", we are our own "better half", and we are our own wholeness. As long as we are looking outside ourselves for "the one" we will never find them for "the one" lies within waiting to be discovered. Love and Peace!