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I Am My Best Friend & I Cannot Be Happier

Renuka Gavrani
8 min readAug 16, 2022

I never had a best friend though I have some good friends. And as much as I can recall, whenever my friends came to me to discuss any of their problems, I was always supportive of them. In fact, when they used to blame themselves, I used to encourage them to think positive and give advice like ‘Don’t be too harsh on yourself’

I bet you can remember giving advice and encouragement too, right?

Truth be told, some of my friends also encouraged and supported me.

Today when I am writing this blog, if I look back, I will find that the only person who was missing from my own side was ME.

And it’s not just the case with me but you as well.

When it comes to supporting others, we stand tall with them. When it comes to encouraging others, we somehow give a perfect speech that is worthy to feature in TedTalk. When it comes to bringing others back to the positive side of life, we all become part-time motivational speakers.

However, when it’s time to support ourselves, we somehow manage to leave every bit of ‘Gyan’ behind and push ourselves into a dark tunnel of self-sabotaging.

Why?

Why you and I don’t have enough courage to stand by ourselves? Why has no one taught us to first be our own friends?

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Renuka Gavrani
Renuka Gavrani

Written by Renuka Gavrani

I talk about slow & Intentional living - taking you closer to a happy life. I am a published author of the book 'The Art of Being Alone': https://a.co/d/531JIFq

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