Most people, if asked, would say that they love themselves, but do
you really love yourself?
If you had asked me before if I loved myself, I’d probably say yes. I liked myself, I know I’m quite pretty, smart and interesting.
But when I lied in my bed in a severe depression continuously tormenting myself with thoughts like “I’m not good enough”, “I don’t deserve it” or “I hate myself” – I realised that I was far from truly loving myself.
So what does “self-love” is? It took me a few months to fully understand it.
Self-love is one of these concepts that you just get. You don’t logically understand it. You feel it.
In my case I read about it, I practiced what was suggested in books and articles, and then one day I just got it. My mindset shifted. And I started loving myself. Just like this.
We Are In Charge Of Our lives
If you are not willing to love yourself today, then you are not going to love yourself tomorrow, because whatever excuse you have today, you’ll still have tomorrow. Maybe you’ll have the same excuse 20 years from now, and even leave this lifetime holding on to the same excuse.
Today is the day you can love yourself totally with no expectations.
Yeah...everyone should not even like instead love themselves . If u can’t love yourself then you can never love anyone else nor you have a right to expect the love from others .
I think one should always love themselves because the person we never want him/her to be sad , hurt or we care a lot for them so if we start loving ourselves then we will end up doing all this for ourselves .
We should never compare our self to others because two people cannot stay on same platform, so if you compare yourself with others, Brother or sister trust me you will feel yourself lower than others that will lead to disappointment and then you will hate yourself .
So just love yourself , work on enhancing self not for others but for self , give time to yourself , enjoy your own company and you will love all this and yourself too .
Exactly @ jordanlove you brought the point home
In life you can not give what you do not have if you don't have love you can't love another person to add to that hating oneself brings rejection onto this person
I agree but in all honesty it took me years to truly embrace the concept and really understand what it meant.
Oh @jordanlove, this is such a wonderful piece and so needed in this world of ours where it certainly can be hard to distinguish between fact and fiction.
I’m so grateful to be on the path to learning to become my own best friend; a life long journey but one I’m glad to have jumped on now! Here’s to taming our inner critics and truly letting the world see us in our shining light. Thank YOU for shining yours gorgeous xoxo
I'm glad you liked it.