Guarded and Cynical

Sometimes I'm too overprotective about who I am. I'm guarded and cynical at times and I'm growing tired of it. My genuine self wants to be joyful and utter happy. Is this possible?

A certain someone has renewed my faith in humanity; the healing has begun, progress is in motion and I love myself just a bit more with every passing day.

Being guarded and cynical just ain't for me.

The most loaded question I've been asked

Do you think you love yourself enough for someone to love you?

Wow, my fraternnity brother Erick just asked me this question and I don't have an answer just yet. Keeping in mind that I believe you have to love and embrace yourself before expecting anyone else to love you for who you are.

I wouldn't turn to someone to provide me with my internal happiness. The special people we find along the way are icing on the cake, they aren't and shouldn't be my pathway towards happiness. I have to be okay with myself, beyond that, I have to love myself and that's how people shine. That's how someone discovers you; when you're comfortable enough in your own skin, comfortable with who you are, when you love the you that you are...that's how you shine and that's how someone discovers you and vice versa. Sometimes that's how you find a connection with someone.

This is something I'll have to think about more carefully. How would you answer this question?