“It’s only when you love yourself that you can truly love
others. When you don’t love yourself, you will project your insecurities and
internal issues onto others, preventing you from ever genuinely seeing them for
who they are.”
I just read How to be a Bawse by Lilly Singh for a second
time and this quote really hit home for me. Take second to read it again.
Lately I have been dealing with a few things in my life. There is nothing wrong
with having issues you need to address but the problem I was having is I
stopped taking care of myself. I know this sounds really selfish but just let
me explain. Taking care of yourself is taking care of your basic needs like
eating right, getting enough sleep, exercising, etc. I started to run myself
into the ground a little bit and when you do this to yourself you start to feel
not so great about yourself.
It is kind of interesting that we work so hard to overcome
our insecurities but the second we stop taking care of ourselves these
insecurities start to creep back into our lives. When we let our insecurities
creep back into our lives it affects all of the relationships we have. We start
to snap at comments that would normally not faze us. Or maybe we start to let
things go that we normally stay on top of like the dishes. I think it is
important to understand that we all have insecurities and we will never get rid
of them; however, we need to love ourselves, insecurities and all. Being able to
love ourselves with our insecurities allows us to genuinely see others because
we do not project our own insecurities onto them.
What is your biggest insecurity? Does it affect how you
interact with others? How do you overcome your insecurities?
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