Do You Really Love Yourself???
We value the feelings of compassion, care, joy, happiness, sad, love so much. We live in a society where we do everything for others. Be compassionate to others. Care for others. Show sympathy to others. Love others. These are all good traits. But the main question arises why don't we possess same feelings for ourselves? Why we fail to even notice ourselves?
Why don’t we show more compassion to ourselves? This sounds strange but this is true. We treat ourselves shabbily many times. We will work even if we are dead tired. We will worry, even if our mind is exhausted. We will plan and try to help others, when we need more help. We will always love others with so much of passion when we are the one to be loved. We wish to give so much to others that we forget about our own mind and body.
We thrashes our self with another emotion which affects more than anything, guilt. Guilt is something which breaks one from inside. It makes the person more vulnerable to themselves. Living with guilt inside us harms our body, mind, health, everything. We carry a lot of guilt about our past and keep on revisiting those sins and use them to kick ourselves repeatedly. Goals and working non-stop to achieve those goals, helping others, taking care that no one is hurt, and so many other such desires make us work hard and in the process we forget that we are also human beings.
We forget our body, mind and heart. Once in a while, we need to pamper ourselves. Talk to our own body. Ask it to relax. Talk to our mind. Tell it not to worry so much. Leave things to Almighty. Help others, and at the same time treat yourselves gently to be little more calm and peaceful. Stay with those people who loves and care your feelings and well being. Stay away from those person who always needed attention, love, care for themselves only and ignore yours. Because you can't just clap single handed. Two hands with equal input are needed for loud one. Start loving yourself like your mother used to do when you were a small baby. You need it at times.
YOU DEMONSTRATE LOVE BY GIVING IT UNCONDITIONALLY TO YOURSELF. AND AS YOU DO, YOU ATTRACT OTHERS IN YOUR LIFE WHO ARE ABLE TO LOVE YOU WITHOUT CONDITIONS.
- Paul Ferrini.