Love Yourself A Little!

Have you ever thought how many times you let others have their way just because you want to keep the peace in between each other? How many times have you just let someone else talk badly about you and you say nothing in return?

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Many of us have faced similar situations over the years. We would rather be facing a loss than make the other person unhappy with us. We have compromised enough for the sake of our gentle nature. We have sacrificed because that is what was expected of us. These lead to low self-esteem and at some point, self-loathing. Now question yourself, you are capable of loving then why not Love Yourself A Little?

No Hallmark cards nor thousands of self-love or self-esteem books will help you realize your worth unless you force your conscience to do it. Usually, we don’t push ourselves to do it. We keep giving spaces to people to maintain harmony between everyone. And after a while we find ourselves backed up against the wall. Even then we refrain from making any sort of disturbance. Only when the wall breaks and we eventually hurt ourselves, we realize what we have lost. Do you know what you have lost? Yourself

The aftermath of that is we spend years trying to find our way back to ourselves. But the damage that has been done will take an even longer time to get mended. And it will be a long journey ahead of you. And in the meantime, you’ll find yourself asking millions of questions and overanalyzing every decision that you have made so far.

How to break away and finally free yourself?

This is going to be a long tough journey. So brace yourself from what’s coming towards you. First, you have to make up your mind that you need yourself, you need to first love yourself and engage yourself with activities that bring your peace and happiness. And make sure you alter your wardrobe a little bit. Buy the suit or the dress that you may have liked but didn’t buy because it doesn’t go with your personality. I know this doesn’t sound relevant but it will. Next, give yourself a different haircut. I’m trying to say that change your appearance a little bit. If you start seeing yourself differently then you’ll start believing differently. It will only boost your confidence.

After that, start saying NO to people who neither acknowledge your effort nor does you any favor in return. You don’t have to completely shut them down, you just have to make them realize that now your priority is ” YOU.” Stand in front of the mirror and carry out the conversation in your mind and come up with a bold response that suits your profile. Then the next step is, connecting with people who boost your confidence, the people you bring out the best in you. Spend more time with them, you’ll start seeing changes in your mind and heart slowly, eventually. This is the first few things that you have to do. You see there’s no shortcut to anything. Even a path to finding yourself again has its ups and downs, but you have to stay strong; you have to keep on reminding yourself that you need this change.

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I recognize this.

It will be hard in the beginning, to say no and to choose yourself and your own well being, but it's so worth it. Your inner peace is more valuable than the peace between others. People should respect each others boundaries or opinions, even when not aligned with your own.

That's my two cents 😅 Peace!

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It is true that you have to love yourself first and know that you have great value that you can share with others. It is also good to treat others as you would like to be treated. If someone offends you it is better to not respond immediately and maybe not at all. Some people should be avoided. It is better to engage with like minded positive people.

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