Daily Insight: I Need You

A wise man once said “I could be congresswoman…or a garbage woman..or Police officer… or a carpenter..I could be a doctor and a lawyer and a mother and a good girl…God what you've done to me kind of lover I could be…I could be a computer analyst, the Queen with the nappy hair raising her fist….or I could be much more and a myriad of this hot as the summer, sweet as the first kiss. And even though I can do all these things I need you..and even though I can do all these things we need you…”

Jilly from Philly speaks truth ladies and gentlemen. I feel as though way too often in this society people women especially have this “I can do bad all by myself” mentality. Yes we know that our accomplishments are our accomplishments, and we are damn proud of them. I would encourage everyone to be fiercely independent at all times. But there are those people in your life that you can put down the Queen Latifah U.N.I.T.Y. independency by the waist side and say you know what I need you.

People are way too quick to dismiss those that we truly need for fear of seeming weak. But you know what sometimes you just gotta get weak like SWV weak. And you don’t know whose day you can make with those three simple words.

So next time you are all on your “uh uhhhh I can do this by myself I don’t need you cause Beyonce told me I’m independent” take a step back and realize it’s not going to kill you to say you know what I need you.

-Becks