Love, Hardship & Betrayal

Do you love yourself?

Posted on 03. Jul, 2008 by Nazri in Echoing my thoughts and interest

Why don’t you take a second to think about the last time you made fun of someone. Probably not long ago. In fact, you may be making fun of me right now which is certainly within the realm of possibility. But anyway, i would suggest that when you make fun of someone it is actually illuminating something in yourself with which you yourself is uncomfortable. 

For an example, you might be making fun of someone for being ugly and i think that would probably mean that you yourself are insecure with the way that you look. Or you might make fun of someone a boy for an example for being feminine and that’s probably because you yourself are uncomfortable with your own femininity.

So when you make fun of someone you are really defining yourself and not that other person. And i said that before and i’ll it say it again right now. when you make fun of someone you’re defining not them but rather yourself. So you know when you make fun of someone you’re actually saying a lot about yourself and really nothing about the other person. I think that’s an important point that should be made.

And what does this has to do with loving yourself? Well, i think that when you love yourself, you don’t find the need to judge or make fun of other people. So you know do i think that anyone will be 100% not be able to judge anyone? No. I think thats probably not really possible for most of us. But! i think that all of us can bring awareness to those moments when we’re judging other people and say okay, I’m making a judgement here and this is saying a lot about myself and how i feel about myself.

And that itself is very illuminating, powerful and wonderful. So i think it also worth saying that it is easier to love yourself when you have a more complete understanding of yourself. I don’t think you need to know yourself 100% in order to love yourself. I don’t think it’s possible to know yourself 100%. I think that we spend most of our lives discovering who we are and i think that in many ways the best answer to the question of who am i? is probably to silence because word can’t really get at that truth.

But when we took moments to step into silence or to spend time keeping in with nature. If we turn off the radio, if we turn off the television, if we turn off the American Idol. If we turn those things off and step into some silence, i think it is a great way to discover who we are in a more complete way i suppose.

So how do you love yourself? Well, i think a great step is to bring awareness to those moments when you judge other people and i think you should make priority to schedule  alone time. And if all else fails, you can love yourself the old fashion way.

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Do i love myself? Well, in certain aspect, yes however, i’m still trying to be a better person.

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