I’ve always believed that encouragement, praise, compliments, and affirmation feel the best. They can open up a whole new world for you that you never dared to explore before.
I know I’m pretty average-looking, with an ordinary job, not always cute, and sometimes with a bad temper. But one day, a friend said to me, “You look really nice today.”
And I was over the moon happy all day long.
The power of that statement can last a long time. It can ignite a spark in you when you’re feeling doubtful and unworthy of love, making you realize that you deserve to be seen and loved.
I know myself well. I can brush off a thousand hurtful words from strangers, but it’s the casual jokes from those who matter to me that can hit me hard. I want to shine in their eyes, even just for a moment.
A single negative comment can make me doubt myself for a long time, to the point where I never open up to anyone again.
If you’re going to date, make it a rechargeable relationship where you both act as each other’s power banks.
What does recharging mean?
No matter how low your energy levels or how upset you are, just seeing that person makes you smile involuntarily. When they hug you, you feel calm, peaceful, and recharged. They replenish your energy, and you can visibly see your spirit recharging with them.
I love being around people who can fill me up with energy. They make me unafraid of exhaustion, setbacks, or failures. Eventually, you become dependent on them for support, seeking them out whenever you’re feeling down before facing life with renewed happiness.
Have you ever asked them if they think of you when they’re feeling low?
Those exhausting relationships are just one person draining the other’s energy. Like a phone and a power bank, they stick together, but the phone never really shares its joys or sorrows with the power bank until it’s almost out of juice and needs a recharge. Then the power bank happily steps in.
Their relationship relies entirely on the power bank’s support. When it runs out of power, the phone goes looking for a power socket.
Feeling someone else’s emotions entirely while neglecting your own is the norm for most relationships. But when two power banks come together, each with its own world, they can recharge each other. If one is running low, the other can provide the boost until they’re both equally charged. Even when both are drained, they don’t fear because they’ll go search for a power socket together, united in purpose.
Those who say, “I don’t understand you, and you don’t understand me,” are simply not on the same wavelength. There might be a fleeting connection, a moment where what you need aligns with what I can offer, but overlooking the fact that everything has its limits can lead to a mismatch. One needing and the other needing to be needed, a wrong match.
He can recharge you, much like love itself, but for it to be true love, you should also recharge him. Sustainable recharging, becoming each other’s pillars, is what makes a relationship enchanting, strong, and mutually fulfilling.
A great relationship involves mutual support, where someone gives you unprecedented confidence to take on life’s challenges courageously, knowing that you have a strong support system behind you, always ready to boost you up at a moment’s notice.