Don't Waste The Pretty: on self-respect

datebynumbers:

Look, it’s insane that all of this happened in one god damned weekend, but the point of this is, even though I did the right thing every night, I’m still left a bit sad, and you need to know that that’s OK.  Self-respect won’t have you calling your girlfriends, debating and analyzing.  Self-respect won’t keep you warm at night.  It won’t make you giggle in the morning.  There’s no euphoric high in behaving with integrity.  Self-respect is an investment.  It is something you add to the bank of self over and over.  You will never see an immediate benefit, but what you will see, years later, is how people respect you when you respect yourself. 

Yeah, ideally 7 would have apologized, 66 would have had the balls to tell me the truth from the beginning, and 77 would have run after me into the night, but that’s not why you do the right thing.  You don’t do the right thing hoping for something magical.  You do the right thing for you.  Invest in your self, respect your self, because people can see that, they can sense it.  In the end, you don’t want the people who lied to you and hurt you, you want the people who would never do that to you.  Maybe it’s not fun, maybe it’s not romantic, but it’s the building blocks of the best relationship you can have in your life: the one you have with yourself. 

datebynumbers I love you.

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