Hi beautiful lovers of music🎵❤🎧
I welcome you to the Hive Open Mic Week #213 with lots of love and happiness.

I'm your lover girl @sessy, and I'm really excited to be here again this week as always.

Our theme for this week is "SELF LOVE" so i will be singing "Greatest Love of All" by Whitney Houston.

As we all know, Love is a beautiful thing, love is powerful, love is magical, love is unique, love unites people.
But do we know that Love fades? Yes, it is possible to run out of love, it is possible to stop loving someone..
Love is like a planted seed, it grows if it is well taken care of.

However, if love is not well taken of, it dies, just like a plant. So many people fall in and out of love without having explanations for what happened, most people usually don't know where it all went wrong, so they just accept it as their fate.

There are different types of Love, amongst them is SELF LOVE, which happens to be the greatest Love asides the Love of God.

You cannot give what you do not have, how can you claim to love someone else when you don't even love yourself?

Some people find themselves in toxic relationships, one minute - the love is blooming beautifully and everything is in place, it's a picture perfect relationship, but the next minute - it is hell like, there's constant argument and fights, sometimes total silence, sometimes unnecessary excuses, improper communication, and so on...

They are either aromantic or in a relationship with someone who is aromantic.
What does it mean to be aromantic?
People who are incapable of love are termed as aromantic.
These people are either traumatized by an experience from childhood, or they're scared of others taking advantage of them, they have low self-esteem and they worry more about not getting what they give even without making an attempt.. These people don't love themselves, so they find it hard to enjoy the love other people show them because they don't believe in love, and no matter how much love you shower them, they believe you're pretending.

Some would even ask themselves, "how come this person claims to love me, when i don't even love myself" People who reason like this, feel self pity towards themselves, they suffer from inferiority complex, they see themselves as ugly or not good enough.

Some of these people settle for less, and apologize at every given opportunity, they believe they're not good enough so they're always wrong, they give in to bullying, they allow people walk over them, they wallow in pity and die in silence..

Others don't make an effort to work things out with their partners if there's a fight, they lack empathy and they're scared to be perceived as a weakling, they give up without making an effort and some of them even become abusive partners.

One of the reasons why I love this song, "Greatest love of all" is because it talks about self love.
It talks about the children being our future, we have to teach them how to love themselves, we have to make them see their potentials, the beauty they possess inside, give them a sense of pride, teach them how to believe in themselves and be independent.

Whitney Houston made magic with this song, because she further talked about how she decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadow, and no matter what anyone takes from her, they can't take away her dignity, because the greatest love of all is happening to her, that's self love.

Bottom line is, I'm using this medium to reach out to everyone who sees this-
Learn to love yourself
Find your strength in love
Learn to walk away from anything that does not give you joy
Learn to find inner peace (not suicide)
Learn not to give in to bully
You have to learn to love and be loved
Learn to take care of your planted seeds (your love)

Love is a beautiful thing, allow yourself experience it, you can't change the past, but you can make the future better.

YOU MATTER, and i care😊

I absolutely enjoy making this beautiful piece, and i hope you do too🥰

SONG LYRICS

I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be
Everybody's searching for a hero
People need someone to look up to
I never found anyone who fulfilled my needs
A lonely place to be
And so I learned to depend on me

I decided long ago
Never to walk in anyone's shadows
If I fail, if I succeed
At least I'll live as I believe
No matter what they take from me
They can't take away my dignity

Because the greatest love of all
Is happening to me
I found the greatest love of all
Inside of me
The greatest love of all
Is easy to achieve
Learning to love yourself
It is the greatest love of all

I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be

I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadows
If I fail, if I succeed
At least I'll live as I believe
No matter what they take from me
They can't take away my dignity

Because the greatest love of all
Is happening to me
I found the greatest love of all
Inside of me
The greatest love of all
Is easy to achieve
Learning to love yourself
It is the greatest love of all

And if, by chance, that special place
That you've been dreaming of
Leads you to a lonely place
Find your strength in love.

Thanks for watching and reading through😍😍
Stay blessed and keep being awesome 👍😎