Loving Yourself

“How can I love you
If I can’t even love myself?

How can I love my life
If I don’t love living?

How can I bare to exist?”

Well, the answer is you can’t.

You have to love yourself before you can love anyone else—plain and simple.

People who don’t love themselves, who have negative self-views, are often drawn to those who see them in the same way—worthless. Low self-esteem can be associated with feeling less deserving of happiness, which leads to people accepting cruel and manipulative treatment because they feel they can’t get anything better. BUT THAT IS NOT TRUE AT ALL! Everyone is deserving of happiness and love. Nobody should feel they deserve cruel treatment.

And as far as existing,

when you love yourself you’ll be able to see the joys in life and find a reason to live. Loving life leads to living rather than just existing— BE PRESENT!