Thursday, September 4, 2008

Needy or not needy?

All my life, I have been told two things. Everyone I have ever met has told me, directly or indirectly, one of these two things. Some people have told me both, but really mean one, or possibly changed their minds several days, weeks, months, or years later. Everyone in your life will tell you one of these little, but at the same time, big messages. I have told people, you have told and will tell people, friends, family. The advice you give one person may not be the same as the next. You may even change your mind or try to take it back. 
Well, these two things can make you or break you, build you or destroy you, enchant you or disgust you, change you or leave you the same being you were before the words were uttered. They make you think. They make you ponder. They make you decide.
One message that I noticed quite recently, is that I need something. Most people tell me I need something when we first meet. They don't specify what it is possibly because of embarrassment, courtesy, or something they call manners. It's typical. We've all been subject to it and have told someone that they've needed something. In our eyes, they didn't have it, and because they didn't have it, of course, they needed it. To many of us, another person on this planet will always need something. Always. 
The second thing, which I learned even more recently, is that no one needs anything. I only wish that I had the power to go up to everyone and tell them that they needed absolutely nothing! How great would it feel?! If I could do that, I would fulfill my life's work...(not like I have any idea what a life's work is, but it sounds legit). To tell someone that they don't need a single thing in my eyes. Some people have told this already. I am happy that I have told them. But I want to let everyone know. 
I want to be able to tell the world that it needs nothing. 
It's perfect just the way it is.
You're perfect just the way you are.