Self love is something we need in our lives, but sometimes we see the two sides of the coin very differently. On the one hand, self-love allows you to see the light that is in you and how far it can take you. On the other hand, the current culture seems to force us to always feel undervalued, that we are not worth enough and that we are not capable of achieving what we set out to do.
That brake that we use keeps us away from things like vanity and self-centeredness, but it also plunges us into depression and anxiety, paths that hardly lead to success. Neither excess nor abandonment, we need respect for ourselves, self-love and remember that what we consider impossible is not.
teaches you to live
Self love allows us to meet ourselves, take a long look at what we see and have the ability to move forward with strength and determination. When you don’t love yourself, you force yourself to feel less, to live less, to be less. You don’t think you can achieve things and months or years can go by like this. When you wake up from what seems like a nightmare, you realize how much time you’ve wasted.
gives you confidence
Self-love is reflected in that voice that tells you that if you fall you just have to get up again and try again. Block the feeling of helplessness, that you are not enough for a job or an activity, because you do not earn mistakes, but life lessons.
helps you grow
When your mind is more of a prison than a meadow, it’s hard to retain new information. There are people who spend years without being able to concentrate and do not learn new things. This is not about a voice telling you that you can’t, it’s just impossible to silence the chaos inside you. Self love helps you keep your head in order, accept new things and grow along with them.
shows you the way
With a clear mind, it is much easier to know what you want to do and how to achieve each goal. Although self-esteem does not magically teach you to fulfill your dreams, it does give you the first impulse to achieve success, because before another person or institution stops you, you are your first barrier.
Joan Didion wrote about self-love more than 50 years ago, saying that when we don’t have it, we comply with something called self-alienation. At this stage we don’t answer the phone for fear of being asked to do something we can’t do or refusing to do it just because we don’t want to do something. According to the writer, it is a stage in which everything is too much for us. We must burst that bubble and start loving each other to achieve the success we want.