Jul 17, 2008 00:37
I think we are going to have to love ourselves. Fuck.
I know. I know. But at least let me just say, I don't mean we have to "love ourselves" in that take-a-bubble-bath-every-night kind of way. Not "love yourself" like "take yourself out to dinner once a week." I think we have to love ourselves fiercely. Like a lionness protecting her cub. like we are about to be attacked at any moment by a maurading gang of thus who are out to make us feel bad about ourselves. I think we have to love ourselves as passionately as the Romans love, with joy and enthusiasm and entitlement. I think we have to love ourselves with the pride and dignity of any French woman. We have to love ourselves as if we are seventy-year-old Brazilian women dressed all in red and white and parading around in the middle of a block party. Or as if we just got hit with a can of beer in our face and we have to come to our own rescue. We have to aggressively love ourselves. We practically have to stalk ourselves, that's how much energy we need to put into this. We really do have to discover our inner Viking and wear our shining armor and love ourselves as bravely as we thought possible. So yes, I guess we fucking do have to love ourselves. I'm sorry.
- Liz Tuccillo, How To Be Single
love,
me