Of love and life.
I was recently tagged in an instagram meme (^) by a close friend and we laughed about us being such narcissists. It got me thinking though, about how important it is to love yourself. The truth is if you can’t love yourself then no one else ever will, except maybe your parents – because that’s what parents do. It makes sense – you know you best. If you don’t love you, why should I? Humility is great, everyone loves grounded people but being convinced that you are not good enough is, frankly, pretty shitty. This one time at work we had training for better communication and public speaking skills. Part of the drill was to stand up and speak for a minute about a certain topic that you are fairly confident about in front of a small group of people. The only little twist, was that you would be on camera. We were then asked to watch once and then re-watch our video to see what needs to be improved and what our strengths are. The reason that we had to watch it twice was that