Why being single is the best thing for everyone...

If someone had told me one year ago today that being single would have been one the best thing that could have ever happened to me, I would have slammed a door in their face and balled my eyes out. After being in a long relationship, that sadly ended last year, being single was the last thing I wanted. I didn't even know how to be single!
Everyone says that time heals everything and at the time I just couldn't see the situation getting better.

One year on and I think being single has changed me for the best. I don't mean by not being with that person, and taking all the heartbreak it caused out of the equation; it's had a positive effect on me. I mean in the way I've grown and changed as a person. Which probably wouldn't have happened if I hadn't if we were still together. Simply because I relied on that person. So despite, at the time, wishing that it wasn't happening; today I see how it has changed and shaped me.

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They say you need to love yourself before anyone else can truly love you. Not necessarily true but just being happy with yourself means you don't have to rely on the other person so much. It's like 'I don't need you in my life, I just want you' kind of situation. So that person can compliment you and your life rather than settling: to not have to be single.

Although relationships are lovely, and finding that person that makes you happy whilst you make them happy in return is probably the most incredible thing - I am now equally as happy out of a relationship. I am perfectly happy spending time by myself, and I'm enjoying being selfish at the moment and just doing everything I want to do. Not having to worry about when I see the other person, or why they haven't text me back is refreshing.
I don't think rushing from relationship to relationship is always the answer.

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Take time to get to know yourself, be happy with yourself, do some thing for yourself. Live the life you want for a while. When it happens, it'll happen. Don't worry about it too much when you're young.

lynsey x