Love Yourself

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Hi there! It's been a while since the last time I updated. I miss writing and blogging so much but I'm super busy (like...seriously!) I just finised my studies about 3-4 months ago and currently, I'm doing nothing. I spent my time eating, sleeping, watching kdramas and reading novels. I gained 2 kgs and I'm getting chubbier than ever. I'm in dilemma too. I wanted to take a break and get a part-time job but my family especially my mom and her sisters (my aunts of course) want me to further my studies. I don't know! I'm not interested in physiotherapy anymore and I've no idea what to do! Any ways, let's forget about that for a while.

"How do you heal yourself?" they asked. Well, I'm not a healer but one thing I know is the only thing that heals every problem is to know how to love yourself. 

People need to start to love themselves more each day so that they will feel better. Then they will get the jobs they want, they will have the money they need, their relationships will improve and they will enjoy their lives. It’s a very simple act—loving yourself. They said I'm being too simplistic but they can't deny what I said. Many of us hide from ourselves and we don’t even know who we are. We don’t know what we feel, we don’t know what we want. To be honest, it's not selfish to love ourselves. It clears us so that we can love ourselves enough to love other people.

To me, love is a deep appreciation. When I talk about loving ourselves, I mean having a deep appreciation for who we are. We accept all the different parts of ourselves— our curves, our flaws, our insecurities and our beautiful qualities too. Unfortunately, many of us will not love ourselves until we get prettier or lose weight, get a boyfriend or whatever that satisfies us. We often put conditions on our love. No sweetie, no! We can change our mindset. We can love ourselves as we are right now!

Remember this— If you're not willing to love yourself today, then you're not going to love yourself tomorrow, because whatever excuse you have today, you’ll still have them tomorrow. Maybe you’ll have the same excuse 5, 10 or even 20 years from now and even leave your lifetime holding on to the same excuse! So sweetie, no more excuses! Love is something we can choose, the same way we choose anger or hate or sadness. We can choose to forgive someone who has hurt us, move on and begin to heal. We can choose to be grateful for what we have and live our life to the fullest. We can choose love and spread it around us. There's always a choice. The choice is in your hands. 

Make today the day you can love yourself totally with no expectations!

Love,

W.