Single On Purpose: Prioritizing Self-Love and Personal Growth in Your Journey Through Life, Dating, and Relationships

by John Kim

because they had no one to kiss in the morning and do nothing with on a Friday night, they saw themselves as failures.

Barbie never needed Ken. All she needed was that convertible Vette.

Because those conversations after work and those waffles on Saturday morning help the world make sense.

Go out and live. Stop waiting, hoping, and being afraid.

It’s about reconnecting with the spirit of the person you used to be when you liked yourself.

whenever we feel like we have to do something, it never lasts.

We keep putting Band-Aids on the problem instead of finding true healing, growth, and transformation.

They say your mind stops you way before your body does. This means you can always push yourself physically much further than you think you can.

So many of us overvalue romantic relationships while undervaluing friendships,

for the first time in my life, the friendships I built were real. Because I was connecting to me while connecting to others.

When you’re single, it’s more important to have good friends than to find a partner.

Most people end up in their first serious relationship around this time, and so it begins: Ordering in. Binge-watching. Losing friends as you lose yourself in your person. And eventually, emotional claustrophobia as you naturally grow and want to become your own person.

And it’s not just about sex. You’re curious about a different dynamic.

You have to grow individually if you want to grow as a couple.

minimizing its ongoing impact on us,

there is a difference between compromise and compromise of self.

Remember to pull from love, no matter how hard it is.

Today, if it’s not meaningful to me, I’m not interested. I won’t go back to living an unsubstantial life.