Today was such a good day.  Emphasis on was.  Ever since the election I’ve been caught in a space between being highly motivated to take responsibility for my life and contribute something good to this world, and crippling fear over what our soon to be President is going to do to this country.  Today, I was on the good side of that.  I was on the side that my forever President Barack Obama encouraged me to be on per his farewell address.  After watching Being Mary Jane, I thanked God for opening my eyes to the fact that it is always a good idea to work on yourself before you commit to someone else.  I even wrote a little about it:

“If you subscribe to the beliefs and teachings of any higher power, then at some point in your life you have hopefully endured some experience that showed you the principle of perfect timing.  We call it God’s perfect timing, or His perfect plan for our life.  This guiding principle gives us peace in knowing that everything we need is ours according to His perfect timing.  With that being said, is it so illogical to believe that if I am not in a relationship right now that maybe I don’t actually need that right now?”

As I was typing this, I casually asked a co-worker how she was doing.  I could tell from her posture that she was really going to tell me the truth.

“You know at the end of 2016 I told myself 2017 is going to be about me.  It’s not gonna be about my kids or my husband, it’s gonna be about me, and that just didn’t happen.  I’m telling you Jessica, value this time now.  Be present in it, because you’ll never get this time back.”

Feeling even more assured that I am on the right path, I typed this out with such vigor, conviction, and pride.  Sometimes we need a reminder that time to ourselves is a valuable commodity that every woman doesn’t have.  The love and companionship of another person always seems to be at the forefront of our desires, but I decided a while ago to put myself at the forefront of my desires.  I have this time to myself for a purpose.  The phase after this is a husband and possibly children, and we all know that one must be selfless in the role of wife and mother.  I tell myself all the time I can’t be more eager to commit to someone else than I am to commit to myself.  With this burst of energy and certainty, I responded to emails about upcoming events, execution of plans for my brand, and I felt so good adding things to my calendar.  And then I really looked at the calendar.  I mean I really looked.  I looked forward, and I realized that Valentine’s Day is coming up, and that I have to be okay being alone on that day too, and my whole day went to shit.

I don’t care what anybody says, it sucks to be alone on Valentine’s Day.  You can be as happy and content in your single life as you want to be, but when Valentine’s Day comes, and everyone around you is getting shit and feeling loved and shit, it sucks.  I can’t even solidify plans to have a girl’s night out, because my friends aren’t reliable when it comes to that kind of thing.  So I started thinking what can I do by myself that won’t also make me feel lonely?  I googled and came up with zero good ideas.  I mulled this over in my mind a hundred times.  What do I really want to do?  What would I want to do if I had a guy?  And then I realized that it is a whole ass month away.  I climbed down off the ledge in my mind, and said relax bitch, it’s a whole ass month away.  Let’s worry about it when it comes.  I will check in with you in a month to let you know if I dipped into my 401k to pay a matchmaker.  Standby.