The Best of You...

One of my favorites songs out there is "Best of You" by the Foo Fighters. The beat is awesome, so it's a great song to jam out to when you're having a moment, so I highly recommend. Today, sitting at my desk at work and jamming to the song, I realized what the "best" really means.

My take on it is this. The best means are you giving yourself to someone without holding back? Are you protecting part of yourself because you can't stand to be hurt anymore. When you love, do you love 100% or like 80 or 90, just to cover yourself. The best of you is that 10-20% that no one gets. That's the real you. Not the part that is out there for the public to see, but the core of who you are.

If you are in a relationship and aren't giving 100%, think about this. You can never experience unconditional love unless you give 100% of yourself. Even if you're only giving it to yourself, you have to learn to not let fear rule how you behave. We have all been hurt and the more we get hurt, the more we tend to protect ourselves. The flip side of that is that the people who hurt us made it so that no one else can see the real you. You showed it to people when you were younger, but have learned that all people can't be trusted.

I wished I would have been raised to learn to trust people. Not just do it because you're supposed to. I hope that in my journey through school, I can learn how to pick between people who are around me to take advantage and people who truly care. I'm learning that to love others, I HAVE to love myself. If I don't like something about myself, I need to change it. My life's path is my choice and though I haven't figured out how to do it yet, I'm on the road to giving myself to those who truly show me they love me and learning to let go of those people that are only there when they need/want something.

Go give the song a listen. Then, go about life and start giving 100%.