Brianna Gomez

My mom told me I'm worthy of love.

My boyfriend told me I'm worthy of love.

So that's good.

Like, at least I can sleep knowing that.

Like, no.

So long as you put your happiness, your well-being in the hands of someone else, you won't be happy because you'll be constantly afraid that someone is going to give or take it away.

It's like if you had your most prized possession, okay?

Heirloom, 24-carat diamond from your great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother, okay?

And you give this necklace to somebody, a partner, okay?

You put it in their hand and you're like, okay, this really means a lot to me.

Please don't break it.

Don't do anything with it.

And if it's the right person, maybe they will take care of it.

But just the fact that you are going to openly give your prized possession to somebody...

And just sit there and stare and wait to make sure that they do the right thing with it.

Or wait for the moment that they give it back.

Why would you ever hand that to them?

Where you can just have it on you.

You know what I mean?

You can keep that to yourself and you can let other people look at it and admire it and...