Self-respect
Self-respect.
How do you look at yourself?
There is some kind of pressure that I think mostly comes from ourselves, based on our reflections of social media, that we should look good, be successful, be happy, be intelligent, in other ways –be perfect – whatever that actually is.
I think all of us want to be happy.
But aren’t we focusing on the wrong things?
Can it be that we are actually focusing on the wrong things?
Rather than trying to work out to look good, I want to work out to feel good, to feel that I am strong and capable of doing the things I want to do today and when I am 50, 70 or 90 years.
Rather than trying to change the way I look with make up and all this trillions of products, I want to use them not because I have to, to become accepted -but because I enjoy it.
Rather than choosing to study or work with things that will make other people value me higher, I want to study or work with something that make me feel the passion so that I will do my best.
Rather than having hundreds of friends, I want to have those really close friends and family that I can come to and talk, that know me, encourages me and guides me rather than judges me for my flaws.
Most of all I want to treat my self the same way I would treat my best friend. The things we sometimes think of ourselves we would n e v e r ever say to our friends, or even our worst enemy, so why on earth should we treat ourselves that way?
I am not perfect, but the imperfection makes me.
Be your best friend and believe in yourself. Value your own relationship, because the since the future is uncertain and people come and go, the only thing we know for sure is that you will always have yourself.
Embrace your imperfection, it makes you –you.
xxx Maddy