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Be Who You Love
Be who you love — and your life will reflect that.
Self-love is often misunderstood and viewed as selfish, arrogant, egotistical, and many other negative connotations.
But the truth of self-love is that the person you spend the most time with is you. In fact, you cannot leave yourself, abandon yourself, or set yourself aside.
Of course, astral projection, distractions, drugs, alcohol, and other things can separate you from yourself temporarily. But no matter where you go — there you are. There is no getting away from yourself.
Hence why self-love is so damned important. If you cannot figure out how to love the person you spend ALL your time with — how can you expand that outwards to share with other people?
This presents a lot of variable thoughts, feelings, and other complex notions. Being social creatures to one degree or another, there are fears of alienating people and being subsequently rejected. In the interest of making impressions, we sometimes deny self-love because we think it makes us better to be “selfless” rather than self-loving.
But this is not healthy when all is said and done.
A great many mental-health issues are either tied into or exacerbated by a lack of love for the self. Depression and anxiety can both…
