You are Your Own Missing Piece

And not your current boyfriend, nor your past partner in crime (by this, I mean "ex").And definitely not your long time crush whom you haven't had a decent conversation with, and whom you'd gladly treasure an eye-contact moment. 

No.

We often are misled by the notion that someone has been set out for us, our animus (the male) or the anima (the female); or that we should be out there to search for the missing piece in the form of a human being to complete our lives. This for me, is entirely wrong and unfortunately, I just realized this now. After having read Mr. Bo Sanchez's book on finding true love, my perspective had changed. I am deemed guilty of the point I raised earlier--yes, I once believed someone has been specially made for me, but not anymore.

 (I vaguely read the entire article and failed to even get the author's whole point, so let me make my own opinion, judgement and belief regarding this matter.)

Setting our minds to the idea
that we should be looking for that someone, that missing puzzle,
causes our very own soul to be distant to itself.
This is because instead of focusing on making ourselves better,
knowing ourselves better and loving ourselves more,
our attentions are diverted so much into exerting effort
in finding the one who holds the missing piece.
This often causes some to devalue their own selves
and forgetting their worth.
In some cases, this has also led to the magnification of our insecurities;
thinking that we should become better not for ourselves,
but to gain positive regards from other people
and eventually become accepted.
This distance, that our souls travel away
from itself and into the abyss of uncertainty
in finding something that does not exist,
can be measured by how much our hearts ache.
It strays away so much from us
that we become too pre-occupied by worry;
wondering if that person's ever going to come to save your azz out,
doubt; if you've done your best to appear as good as possible
in the eyes of others thinking your missing piece
might be somewhere among the crowd,
resentments and bitterness; because your insecurities have multiplied.


YOU.
YOU ARE YOUR OWN.
YOU ARE YOUR OWN MISSING PIECE.

We are missing pieces of ourselves because we have to find out:
(1) our life's purpose, which is mostly to exist and to live it
(2) to love ourselves, loving ourselves well that when our cup of self-love overflows (not to the point of extreme vanity), the extra love can be given to our significant others without losing that much for ourselves.
(3) that life is amazing and that every second is worth remembering.
(4) why we have problems, and realizing that they are there to remind us that we are alive and
(5) because God loves us so much, He doesn't want us to tire ourselves too much in looking for something that is superficial at all in other people--but in us.

Figure out yourself. Find yourself. Acknowledge. You are your own missing piece because you have your own value. The love of your life will come. But he or she or heshe does not hold that "piece". You do. Once we find ourselves, it'll be easier to see the people around us, not by the masks they wear but by the songs of their hearts and the passion of their souls.

and always be reminded that you are the....