Honey, you’re chasing love like a dog chases its tail.
See, ’cause it’s all fun and games until the dog
actually catches its tail,
it bites down and it hurts and then a few minutes
later it’s chasing its tail again.
you chase down love until you get what you believe
it is,
but then you’re wrong and it hurts, it hurts bad,
and for while, you’re really sad,
but then you get back up chase after it again.
but honey, don’t you know that love can wait?
you’re not some half of a person needing another to
make you whole.
you’re a whole person, you’ve got dreams of your
own,
why don’t you just chase those instead?
you’re strong and independent and beautiful,
and you don’t need a boy to tell you that
to make it true. Tell it to yourself and believe it.
“okay but nobody loves me, I want someone who
loves me.”
But honey, don’t you know that so many people
love you?
maybe they don’t always show it but they do.
your parents, your brother, the rest of your family,
your best friends, the kids at your mom’s daycare,
me.
“not that kind of love, you know what I mean.”
but we love you so much, isn’t that enough?
look honey, I know that you want that fairytale love,
but it’s just that, a fairytale.
you thought you’d found it many times before,
only to have it screw you over,
and I know it hurts, I know it does,
but jumping right into it again
isn’t going to make it feel any better.
Listen honey, it’ll come to you one day when you
aren’t even looking for it.
It might not come in a beautiful package with a bow
on top,
but I swear it’ll come.
And it’ll be beautiful in its own way, and it’ll be all
sorts of messy,
but it’ll be yours.
And see you won’t even need to chase it,
it’ll chase you
