It’s the beginning of another year at college, and all around you relationships are crumbling because of the distance. You’re in a sea of beautiful, interesting, intelligent, sexy people, and maybe you’re just a little bit lonely.
But trust me when I say that you’re a strong independent woman who don’t need no man.
Yes, you.
You are strong. You’ve gone through every single day of your life in this world of rape and murder and death and war, and you’re still alive. You’ve made it through every single struggle that ever dared to try to drag you down, and you’re stronger because of it. You shoulder what would destroy someone else, and you move on through every pain you have, every day.
You don’t need anyone else in your life to make you “complete.” You are complete. You are your own brand of amazing, and every day accomplish things that your peers could hardly attempt.
There’s a difference between needing someone, and wanting someone, and when I say that you’re a strong independent woman who don’t need no man, I mean it. You don’t need anyone to find definition in who you are. The other people shuffling through this world don’t make you who you are. You are not defined by those around you; you define yourself, and the sooner you realize that, the more you realize what a strong independent woman you are.
Too many people feel the need to hold someone close to themselves because they’re afraid of being alone. You survived the Mayan Apocalypse. You can survive without someone else telling you how special you are every waking minute. You don’t need no man.
That’s what it means to be independent. To be happy with who you are, instead of how someone else, anyone else, sees you. You don’t need anyone else to tell you that you’re beautiful to know that you are. You don’t need anyone else to define you. You don’t need no man.
No matter where you are in your life, no matter where you see yourself in five years, let me tell you: you are a strong independent woman who don’t need no man. You are who you want to be, and no one else in this world has the power to take that away from you. You are your own person. You’ve lived, you’ve loved, you’ve laughed and lost and been hurt and cried and had good days and bad. You are a strong, independent woman, and you don’t need no man.
You have yourself, and you’re the coolest person around.
