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You Have To Love Yourself Before Someone Else Can, Don't Hold Yourself Back

Don’t allow yourself to be the one holding you back from living this amazing life you have before you

Maddison Boys

Apr 23, 2018

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You Have To Love Yourself Before Someone Else Can, Don't Hold Yourself Back

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If you want to live your life to the fullest then do you, be who you want to be. It has taken me so long to get to a point in my life where I am happy with everything about myself! I see women every day that have all these kinds of insecurities and self-esteem issues when they really shouldn’t have any of these problems because they are gorgeous and just as pretty as the next person.

Finding love is something most girls chase after, well stop chasing for someone else’s love and start chasing for your own. There was a time in my life when I realized that the only person that I’ll ever need to love me is myself, once I do that then the world can start to love me too.

I love myself, and I won’t ever stop. Neither should you.

My friends come to me for advice; I’m great at giving it, terrible at listening to it. Beside the point, I was giving the same advice to girls for about two weeks straight. I started to not feel an impact on the words I was saying anymore because I had to say them so much. The main sentence was “learn to love yourself before someone else can love you.”

It’s one of the truest pieces of advice I’ve ever given.

I heard it all the time growing up and wanted to ignore it all the time. When the time came that I finally started to understand the true meaning of that advice is when I realized that everyone should know how it feels to love oneself. We are so beautiful in this world, we aren’t all the same and that’s what makes each of us beautiful souls. Learning to love yourself is a step in everyone’s life that they much leap towards otherwise they may be lost forever.

Live life to the fullest.

Don’t allow yourself to be the one holding you back from living this amazing life you have before you. You will have amazing opportunities, and amazing people will start to come into your life and never leave like they may have in the past. All those toxic people will start to leave and your life will become your own. You will feel comfortable doing EVEN the most ridiculous things because it makes you happy. You don’t need to validate who you are to anyone else because all that matters is that you love yourself.

It’s the most rewarding feeling in the world, so stop caring about those that don’t care about you, and put yourself first. You are the only person that can make you happy, so go be happy.

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