I’ll be blunt. I’m miserable. My girlfriend,broke up with me. My very first relationship ended in a catastrophe that I myself prophesied. Sparring the intimate details of the relationship, we decided to break up due to the worsening condition of my anxiety and depression. I felt like everything was my fault because there was something wrong with me. I felt unworthy of love, compassion and success. I felt alone.

I have been going to therapy and it has helped, but lifting the depression that has been in me for years seemed impossible. So I lay crying, listening to the sad playlist I had made myself. It seemed that it would last an eternity. But in my hour of darkness, there HE was standing right in front of me, Kanye West, spitting words of wisdom; “PASS THAT VERSACE.”

Kanye West has been some kind of obsession for me for a while. I used to blindly hate him because of the whole VMAs Taylor Swift fiasco, but there was an earlier low point of my life that drove me to listen to “808s and Heartbreaks,” his fourth studio album. That was my first step into the light of Kanye and I have become his apostle ever since.

When describing Kanye, my diction often sounds as if HE’s a religion, and in some ways, he is similar to one. Like religion, people corrupt and twist Kanye’s actions, just like people misinterpret

Jesus’ words. Kanye, in my eyes, is a modern-day reincarnation of Christ which helped me discover the power within myself.

“If you’re a Kanye West fan, you’re not a fan of me, you’re a fan of yourself.”

“I always feel like I can do anything. That’s the main thing people are controlled by; thoughts and perceptions of yourself. If you’re taught you can’t do anything, you won’t do anything.”

My therapist had recommended meditation which led me to look more into the freeing of the mind. This is very similar to what Kanye has been telling us for years. HE is about believing in the infinite power of yourself. Kanye’s music might be tremendously egotistical, but that’s because he wants you to have the same belief in yourself. He wants you to love yourself as much as Kanye loves Kanye.

Many people who are turned off by Kanye West say his claim “I am a god” and say it’s ridiculous. But it really isn’t. If we are created in the image of God, then we should claim that likeness and develop the power within ourselves to endure whatever life gives us.

We don’t need to look outwardly for things to make us whole. We should let our wholeness within lead us to our goals. Our mind tells us that we aren’t good enough, that we aren’t worthy, but

Kanye is the way to break those self doubts.

You are good enough, and as ‘Ye says “Nobody can tell you nothing.” You can fail, but you’ll always have yourself, and if you’re happy with just yourself, nothing can hurt you. Kanye just paves the path; you already have the means to break away and find your true self.

I had lost myself in the past relationship. I became a worse version of myself and succumbed to all my insecurities. I thought I was nothing without my girlfriend; I had forgotten what ‘Ye’ taught me.

But HE was always there and saved me. So have faith in Yeezus, and in turn, you’ll have faith in yourself.