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Why You Don’t Need to Love Yourself but DO Need to Like Yourself
It’s because you are always with yourself, all the time. But that’s just the start.
Nobody is ever, truly, alone.
Why? Because no matter where you go, there you are. Or in other words — you always have yourself.
Here’s the thing — your entire life, you have yourself. That means that you have all that you are, good, bad, and otherwise, always with you.
For many people, that’s disconcerting. You have yourself — but isn’t that a lonely proposition? If you only have yourself, what does that mean?
You don’t only have yourself. You always have yourself. Yes, you will change along the way, and who you were before is not who you are now nor who you will be. But no matter how much time passes or what happens along the way — you’ll always have you.
That’s why you should learn to like yourself.
Why? Simple — how do you feel about spending time with people you dislike? I would rather not. Do you prefer to be with people you like? I do.
Since you are with yourself all the time — you need to like yourself. When you like you, it makes being with yourself — which you always are — pleasurable rather than a chore or…
