I Would Totally Let My Kids Listen to JoJo

As I sat in bumper to bumper today on the 10, crawling toward Santa Monica during rush hour, I listened to the radio because truthfully I was too lazy to change my CDs. If you want to take it one step further, I'm actually too lazy to get the thingy which connects an ipod to a car (eh hem, Jess) but whatever, I'm busy so cut me a break please, thank you. Anyway, JoJo (you know who she is so stop pretending like you don't), was on the radio. "It's just too little too late" blah blah blah. It's catchy, so I let it play. I thought I was hallucinating when I heard her mention something about moving on and loving herself, because really, super pop isn't that deep.

I got home and looked up the lyrics. Imagine my surprise. Jojo (I think she's about 14), knows more about life, love and relationships than most women my own age. No really. Read:

I was young and in love
I gave you everything but it wasn't enough
And now you wanna communicate
Go find someone else
In letting you go, I'm lovin myself
You gotta problem
But don't come askin me for help

I'm shocked. Mostly by the part that reads, "in letting you go, I'm lovin myself". Perhaps it would be slightly deeper with a "g" attached to lovin' but let's not split hairs. The point people is that every psychologist in the world (including my mommy and she is soooo smart) will tell you with respect to ANY AND ALL relationships, they can only be happy and healthy ones if you love yourself. Most people I know LARGELY overlook loving the self. I readily admit, I used to be one of them.

My mom has always stated, that it’s impossible to love someone that treats you poorly and love yourself simultaneously. Basically, the two are mutually exclusive. If you love yourself, you wouldn't love someone that treats you poorly. If you love someone that treats you poorly, you clearly don't love yourself. Rock on Jojo. Rock on.