PRACTICING SELF-LOVE

 By Matata Mercy

Do you love yourself enough? Most of us take alot of our precious time trying to take care of others and we later on realize that we are not at our best and need to actually improve our lives.

 Iam not trying to say that you should not take care of others, it is a very good thing and gesture for you to take care of others.

 Iam trying to say that you need to also try to take very good care of yourself. If you are not doing well, iam very sure that you will not be able to take care of others properly. 

There is also one thing that you should know, people do change and move on. 

Sometimes the people you thought would be there for you during the hard times will not actually show up and you will be shocked by that reality.

The truth is that human beings are not perfect and the people we take as friends and colleagues might turn out to be our enemies in the long run. 

I will emphasize and tell you to always keep helping people whenever you can, do not allow one person who disappointed you to make you lose faith in humanity.

 In the end we are all humans who at one time or another will need some helping hand to pull us up from the pits of despair. 

But i will still urge you to focus on yourself to some extent, you only have one life to live and that life is being lived by you right now and at this moment.

 Enjoy the moments that you are in whether good or bad. If you are going through a trying moment, atleast try to see the silverlining in the pit of despair that you find yourself in. Everything around you might be crushing but the truth is that there is always a silverlining around it.

 You might be going through a divorce but the truth is that there is something good about all that. Yes, there is. After being divorced you will realize that you have been freed and are now able to start building great relationships a fresh. 

When you have been fired from your job, you realize that you have enough time to start doing the things you love and even to start your own business from scratch. Start becoming compassionate to yourself. Start discovering the things you love. 

What are your desires? What do you love to do? What are you passionate about? One way of showing self-love is to pursue the things that you are passionate about. 

Do you love writing, blogging, creating art, recording music or photography may be knitting. This is something that you can fall back to when everything else around you crushes.

 For my case, i love writing and programming computers and these are things i would do even if iam not earning a penny. It's something that iam willing to do for free. 

Therefore doing things that you love is a way of showing self-love to yourself.Another way is also for you to take very good care of yourself by the way to dress and eat. 

What kind of clothes do you love to wear and put on? For my case, i love wearing jeans and t-shirts that fit me perfectly, these are clothes that make me feelcomfortable and alive. 

I urge you to start taking good care of yourself and express yourself through creativity and your passions. In the longrun you will be living a life without regrets and you will be glad that you did.