How I Learned To Love Myself
And how we need to stop judging ourselves.
In all your life, everything you have done was with the subtle thought in mind that it would benefit you in the long run.
You never did anything to directly harm yourself! Everything you ever did was for you!
That’s not to say that everything worked out in your favor, but it was all for you to be happy in the end.
When you understand this, you reduce the judgments you have against yourself, and without judgments, you can begin to understand. You just like certain foods. Period. And you just feel certain Emotions. Period.
For example, the emotions that you feel are not bad nor good; they are just what you feel.
In the same way that you have a certain inclination for some foods over others, you have an inclination to feel a certain way in certain situations.
When you feel something just accept it.
Whatever you want you want. Whatever emotional response you have you have.
Pretending it's not that way is just lying to yourself.
Remember that the emotions you feel are a part of you and that in accepting them you are giving yourself more of a chance to be happier, which is the whole point!
It’s denying who you are due to the idea that you have to be something else, something more, or something better.
You do not have to love yourself for the emotions you feel, nor for the responses, you have, but at least love yourself enough to accept yourself for who you are.
You only ever tried to do what is best for you and it didn’t always work out. But you shouldn’t blame yourself for that and instead smile, love yourself and move on into your future trying even harder for you.
Originally published at http://quora.com.
