143!

143

by: radicalroy

“143 or I love you.” There are no three little words more magical, powerful, and potentially life-changing than these.

Boys and girls want to hear those three words and to be loved. We need to be loved, and to give love in return.

Love from parents, siblings, friends, and guys. Love from guys is a tricky one. Every day we don’t like who we are, it’s like a teaspoon of hot sauce gets poured down our throats.

We used to look at the mirror every day and say, “Yuck,” we get a little more salty, and a little thirstier.

Every day that we curse our bodies and wish we were someone else, that healthy thirst becomes a bit more desperate, a bit more eager, a bit more willing to be satisfied by the first thing that comes along. That usually means the next guy who walks our way.

Every day we wish we could look like someone else. Our struggles with self-image take the wonderful gift of guy-girl relationships and complicate them. Kind of spoils the fun a bit. Makes us act way differently than we really are. It adds all kinds of pressure. At least lots of days it ends up that way.

Some days we feel okay or maybe even good, about ourselves. We greet guys like friends. Like brothers and sisters, like dates. We don’t run away and we don’t rush in. We walk calmly, patiently, and confidently.

Maybe this article will set us all on the path toward some answers. Our hope is that by now, you like what you see in the mirror, at least a little bit more than when you started reading. Maybe you don’t need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to feel good about yourself. You just need yourself, and your God, to feel good about yourself.