ventisette:

My goal for the new year is to be fully satisfied in being single. I think I am, for the most part, but there is still that part of me that sits in a coffee shop alone and hopes to make eye contact with a cute stranger and to leave with a stomach full of tea and a new number in my phone. There’s that portion of my heart that aches when I’m watching a movie and wish I could lean my head on someone’s chest while they wrap their arms around me. There’s the whisper in my ear that life is good alone but would be so much better with someone at my side. There is nothing wrong with those things, but if you resent being alone you miss out on so much in life. If you’re longing for more you cannot appreciate that which you have as easily. So in 2012 I want to love being single. I don’t to just be “okay” with it (which I am) - I want to embrace it and thrive in it. I want to be more passionately in love with the present instead of hopelessly infatuated with the idea of being in a relationship.