"I Love You, Self"

There is only one lesson you need to learn, and you need to understand first. You are absolutely the most important person in YOUR life. No, I’m not saying you need to be selfish. In your life you need to take care of you. Especially, your mental health. If you can’t be there for yourself how can you be there for others?

Your life is lived through your eyes. Your interactions with the world around you, your thoughts and how you interpret events, relationship, actions and words. It’s all what you see.

You might think you are just another person when it comes to the grand scheme of things, but when it comes to understanding your reality, you are the only thing that matters. Your reality depends on how much you love and take care of yourself. How you take care of you is the most important factor in shaping the kind of life you live.

But, the less you love yourself, listen to yourself, and understand yourself, the more confused, angry, and frustrating your reality will be. But when you begin and continue to love yourself, the more everything you see, do, and everyone you interact with, start to become a little bit better in every way possible.

I know, loving yourself isn’t easy. You are your own worst critic. Trust me I know that all too well. We are actually programed to have bouts of self-loathing and self-hatred. Again, I know this all too well. The sad thing is sometimes these can go on our entire lives. It’s when we spend more time hating ourselves than we do loving ourselves that we adopt a more negative disposition of the world. For someone who suffers from a mental illness, it’s harder to live in a more positive world. As we see it, the world is a negative dark place.

Love yourself. It may not be the easiest thing in the world to do, but it’s definitely the most important.

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”-Lucille Ball