To love your own self is one of the hardest things in the books. It is not something that is taught in school, posted all over social media, or really talked about. Yet it is so important.
You need to be able to love yourself first before you can love someone, or/ and before someone can love you.
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Maybe when you look in the mirror, you hate what you see. You are beautiful, and so much more. Beauty is not everything, but it is important to have a beautiful soul.
It is hard to love yourself, especially when other people have told you mean, rude or critical things growing up. I am a victim of that, too. Middle and high school are especially hard, because it is more of trying to impress others than it is actually learning. You will realize in college you can come to class in head to toe footie pajamas, and you'll make even more friends. It is just the way it goes. If you are not already there, you will be soon. I promise you these are the best times of your life to be able to live, love and be loved for who you are.
Loving yourself is hard because sometimes you do not even realize that you do not love yourself or love yourself first. It was a huge wake up call for me after a relationship of mine ended, and I realized I needed to work on self love before I could love someone else or let someone else love me. This took awhile to go through, but it was so worth it.
You will experience so much more, be able to look at things from different perspectives, and have an invisible trophy to hold when you look in a mirror and look at yourself.
Stand up for what you believe, laugh at things you find funny, wake up each morning with a new perspective of something, take walks, do not worry about being judged, and most importantly never forget who you are or where you came from.
Loving yourself first before you can truly be loved by someone is something that is difficult to explain, but something that needs to be done. You are so much more than you think you are, and you have so much to offer the world, love yourself. How can you expect to be able to be loved by someone when you do not even believe in yourself, or your own personal goals for life.
Self care is most important, and it is something that you should take very seriously. Do not rely on someone else to make you happy, or to make yourself feel better about your own self and happiness. This is your time in life to strive, so take advantage of self love now, so you can love yourself for the rest of your life and be loved.
You are strong, you are beautiful, you are powerful, you are loved. Love yourself first.
