geekdawson:

The thing that you learn is that you can’t make yourself special to someone. The thing you learn is that it is all out of your control, what other people think or don’t about you. The thing you learn is that the best thing you can do for yourself is not need anyone else. It can make you cold and distant. It can isolate you and it is very, very lonely. But there’s a trick…you ready? You have to choose them. Even though you don’t need them. You have to let yourself want them. And to know the difference between want and need. I want is patient, I need is urgent. I want is an offer, I need is a demand. I want is about them, I need is about me. 

And it is vulnerable. And it is scary. And it is risky. And there are many people who will never consider want enough, who only respond to need. But it is also powerful. I can want a thousand, thousand times unfulfilled. But to need a thousand, thousand times unfulfilled would destroy me. 

Learn to let yourself want…even while you build yourself up so you rarely need.