I Can Buy Myself Flowers

Miley Cyrus won her first Grammy Award this month for “Flowers”.

She wrote it as a result of her breakup with ex-partner, Liam Hemsworth and its lyrics loudly and proudly exude self empowerment and self worth. Wholeness. Sense of self. Healing. The lover is gone BUT I CAN DO THIS FOR MYSELF. I CAN LOVE ME BETTER.

Wow.

But it didn’t start out this way…

Miley initially intended for the song to be the saddest song and “yes, I can be my own mistress, but you’re so much better”.

What A VICTORY for self empowerment to change the lyrics! Don’t we all need to love ourselves better than “they” did. IT MUST ALWAYS STEM FROM US FIRST, AND THEN OF COURSE, WELCOME IT FROM THEM.

May all young people learn this first principle of embodying self-love and self reverence first in being a WHOLE, stand-alone, person.

May the rest of us keep practising it. IT’S THE LIFE BLOOD OF HEALING AND HEALTH.

Here are the winning lyrics, for all people. Not just women.

WHAT A VICTORIOUS BELIEF to propel into the future to heal with.

CAN YOU LOVE YOURSELF BETTER? The opposite is giving away your power and life force, thinking love is totally dependent on how others react to us. That it can only be given by them. That we are less than, until the next person comes along and hopefully loves me enough to fill all my LOVE HOLES.

Take a bookmark out of Miley’s songbook: “I can buy myself flowers. Write my name in the sand.”

You can do it every day.

US author and politician, Marianne Williamson, gushed on Instagram how the song captured “the zeitgeist of the moment” and was “an anthem for every woman who has ever thrown off the shackles of a hopeless attachment to someone who doesn’t love her back”. She said it was also “about throwing off the patriarchy itself, realising it’s not what we thought it was, and in fact we can do it all much better ourselves.”

Watch Miley singing FLOWERS live at the Grammys!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSC4TcLJfAg