If you haven't read Rupi Kaur's series of poems in her book, "Milk and Honey", you should get to it.
As an overall synopsis, the book includes four chapters dealing with love, abuse, loss, femininity, and survival. These are things I feel everyone experiences at some point in their life to varying degrees, but experiences them nonetheless.
This author taught me more about myself than I thought I knew, and I felt I related so well to her poetry and experiences. This author and book feel like home. This author and book feel like a best friend.
Over the course of time, best friends are there for you at your worst and build you up from there. They encourage you when you're at your highest. They love you more on days you feel you're loved a little less by the world. Best friends fill the gaps. Rupi Kaur filled the gaps for me, and I hope she fills the gaps for you too.
You are everything you need.
Kaur demonstrates self-confidence through this small but mighty poem. I feel as though she's saying that you are enough for the world, you don't deserve anyone to make you feel anything less than what you are. That is what a best friend does, shows you you are enough. You do not need anyone to complete you.
Goodbye.
Kaur is talking about the negativity of a relationship, the abuse of the relationship that puts someone down and makes them feel inferior to the other. Rupi Kaur encourages self-respect in this poem. I feel people struggle with this, as though they feel they will step on people's toes if they stick up for themselves. But as a best friend, Kaur shows you that you deserve nothing less than one hundred percent of someone's effort and respect. Respect starts with you, and then that's how others will view you.
Everything comes full circle.
Kaur establishes patience, as a best friend should. Not everything in life is going to be perfect, and sometimes you really need someone to remind you of that. Who else other than a best friend?
I have always been enough.
Ah, one of my favorite poems. Kaur authenticates the pressure of society and societal norms. This feminist side comes out to empower women to realize their true self is everything they will ever need. No man can ever get in the way of a woman. Who better to tell you that than your best friend? I go to my best friends about everything boy related. This poem nailed it on the head.
If Rupi Kaur inspired you as much as she inspires me, you can await anxiously for her new book to come to shelves October 3, 2017!
